they can see it. in the headlines this hour the czech president says his country needs to start using russia's. vaccine and calls for the health minister to be fired for refusing to approve the drug. on the european medicines agency countries to keep using the astra zeneca vaccine after a 4 nation suspends the drug reports of severe blood. shuts down for brand new covert emergency hospitals built at a cost of half a $1000000000.00 pounds public boils over a meal one percent pay rise for frontline health workers. and many sites across the u.k. it costs more. to. new york governor

andrew cuomo to step down as pressure mounts over his handling of the pandemic we hear from the daughter of one victim who's demanding answers. all. alone with global stories and international analysis this is our team for a moscow one is called and right welcome to your world news this hour 1st the presidents of the czech republic has called on his government to urgently approve the russian made sputnik the vaccine to ease the ongoing health crisis and it spiraled into a major dispute within the leadership in prague with president shimon the calling for the health minister to be fired for dragging his feet on the issue here's our europe correspondent peter all about. well the president of the czech republic

deeply unhappy with senior figures in the government of that nation he's in fact called for both the health ministry and the minister for health to step up to the plate approve the sputnik vaccine ahead of the european medicines agency giving the green light a similar move was done in countries like hungary that independently approved the vaccine for use without. approval it was still waiting for the difference in the czech republic is those that the president is now calling for senior figures in the cabinet to be sacked i would like to say that the 2 biggest obstacles to delivering sputnik be to the czech republic and the minister of health and also the director of the state institute for drug control there are millions of people abroad are already being vaccinated with these jabs where that russian or chinese than the 2 i spoke of are to blame for the fact that our people will continue to die unnecessarily the only solution i see is the retirement of both well he certainly

came but young blood and the health minister in prague has said he will wait for the e.m.a.'s approval before allowing sputnik v. to be used in check as long as i'm the health minister i will insist that vaccination in the czech republic is not done with the drug there's not been approved by the european medicines agency but if he was to change his mind there are plenty within the government who would be very keen to see the russian vaccine rolled out across the country i would not seek to devalue the results of russian science just because it comes from russia we have a situation where there are not enough vaccine supplies in europe so the e.u. should have negotiated with other manufacturers including manufacturers from russia a long time ago. well elsewhere with one of the major vaccines that's being used here in europe the astra zeneca job italy and denmark could become the latest e.u. member states to suspend its use they are joined by dawn e.u.

member states in europe norway and iceland in carrying out this suspension in denmark it follows the death of one person with a blood clot having just received the vaccine the health minister in that country said it's not currently possible to conclude if there is a link he made that announcement as he also announced that there would be a full investigation earlier we saw similar scenes from austria just under a week ago or so the european medicines agency ruled what happened in that country had no link to the astra zeneca vaccine being given so these moves are precautionary in nature but certainly serious and worthwhile being looked at and that's why these member states of the e.u. as well as other european nations of of decided to take the decision to suspend the use of astra zeneca for now. peter mentioned

a number of countries have suspended the use of the astra zeneca vaccine over reports of blood clots and one death in denmark and now the european medicines agency which is heading the investigation says those countries should continue using the jab and the position of european medicines agency safety committee p.r.a. see is that the vaccines benefits continue to add to its risks and the vaccine can continue to be administered while investigation of cases of flu on bone bullock events is ongoing 2 scientists we've been speaking to outlined the potential implications of the job being suspended. i think when you're vaccinating very large numbers of people you've got to recognize that in the general population there are going to be a fix anyway and people are suffering diseases all the time and you need to be sure that way any of beds that you see any effects that you see of the vaccine are not simply because your bucks 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 can i can tell some of the e.m.a.'s already looked at this in relation to austria and it's happened 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 populations and i say the normal population versus the vaccinated population so you have to look at least things very very carefully is a been 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 specter of age on the effectiveness of vaccines. and of course as a you have to investigate every serious side effect carefully but there is a big commercial dimension to all of this as well we need to look at it further a number of people are in your report said that batch of facts even gone to. i said

probably many different countries is there a problem with. globetrotting in other countries as well or is this just a one off for example in denmark that's a really important thing to to find out and really anybody with this sort of oversight multinational oversight like the m.a. can do that the european model of medicines agency has to take the sort of questions and concerns of each member state into account when it when it came to gives off dorothy i don't think that one can say the a.m.a. is being. slipshod or careless. you know that. there are questions that they are sui slightly different from regular folks in the u.k. or in other countries so overall one gets quite a broad picture of the safety of this drug it's what it is. in many different countries. italy said to become the 1st to e.u.

state to make russian sputnik the vaccine production there is due to start in july the european medicines agency is right now considering whether to approve the shot and its developers are demanding an apology after the agency's chair described the authorization process as russian roulette nevertheless italy expects to manufacture $10000000.00 doses by the end of the year as the bloc suffers a huge shortages from western alternatives the president of the italian russian chamber of commerce told us about 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 though a great number were coming from fires 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 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 isn't the only russian and covert breakthrough the russian institute of immunology is right now testing a drug that could stop infected people from spreading the disease ahead of the institute been telling 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 face. italy's launch the world's 1st covert hospital train as it struggles with overflowing wards it's equipped to treat the most critically of a patient. yeah 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 as if it's in an

intensive care unit obviously this simply equipment with a ceiling able to do the job 7 patients can be transported in each parish so in total $21.00 patients in intensive care. cases in italy have again been on the rise this month forcing the authorities to put more regions into the so-called red zone with the tightest restrictions the health minister says the train will head to wherever it's needed most. illegal the 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. money down the drain that's how the u.k. is huge temporary covert hospitals are being described afterward revealed the most are now being closed down having treated only a small handful of patients it's led to questions over the government's approach to

the pandemic there's a partridge now 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 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. we have created it was rules and. china managed to create a hospital and once we even even more so i mean there was an element of basically

showing of those who are trying to reassure that they were doing that and when when the government starts to do things right is ensure 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 will. also determine that 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 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 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 the breaks of course are printed money in big spurts all the. nicer girl hospitals most of which were not properly was better complete waste of resources. that the government's a big cross was not looking at how much the issue of the soft resources because the . extra hospital facilities if you haven't got the stocks are going. the hospital closures come of the same time the government said that it can't afford more than one percent pay rise for n.h.s. workers nurses have launched a petition calling for a 15 percent salary hike on half a 1000000 of already signed a document one nurse explained what one percent pay rise means. to be honest one percent is quite frankly an insult to us to the profession and to the n.h.s.

it's a home for most noses that equates to around 3 ounces here week 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 all so does that they will say what we do at the public sector because it seems and 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 it and it's extra trade system that we pay for an n.h.s. to house to 50 percent pay rise and it would still be money left in the pot after we see nearly qualified misses 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 i'm not really because it's patient

safety issues across the board 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 unnecessary paying our staff a great. pressure is continuing to mount against new york's under fire governor andrew cuomo in a protest against a sexual assault allegations and his handling of the covert health crisis so police move in and make a number of arrests. protesters have been chanting that the governor had failed new yorkers and they condemned him for on the counting the number of deaths in nursing homes since admitted that he made a mistake in withholding the data. we didn't provide information it will. press people cynics politicians. to fill the void i just want to make sure people know these are the facts these are the facts.

everything that could have been done was done by the states health department reported around 8000 fatalities. but that number excluded those who were transferred to hospitals where they later died was also later acknowledged that had in fact been 15000 deaths in total. many people lost loved ones in the pandemic teresa salaries mother died of want to go home she's been demanding answers about policies which saw nursing homes taking in covert positive patients shouted her story to us. everyone can make it like it was just walking away she. could have been aborted i think it would. mean that in that we're not under you know can prevent this from happening i have played the role of a lot of people in our whole especially the nursing home actually that. are going there. because of. some of the you know an n.p.r.

i mean the building you know whatever in place you know the nursing homes were like a full hour you know we're all going out and people were great times or any really want to do your job and you know we were. sitting here and the people in a nursing home let me leave if i didn't want to be sent back to the mom especially ringback then the numbers were released after pressure on them and you know of this very you know ringback basically to be any this is going on a month i mean the federal year that nuclear arsenal are claiming that you know you don't remember how many people ringback die from the interstate while you know there aren't you know back in the shooting of his. actually comes out. when they came. back people should be more outraged again

a number people in back nursing home my mother. would normal has big drop from all skin care products made by the consumer goods giant giddily about the u.k. based firm claims that the word makes customers feel excluded we know that removing normal from our products and packaging will not fix the problem but it's an important step forward. the company polled customers and found that more than 2 in 3 people thought that using the word normal had a negative impact unilever also says it's ending the excessive airbrushing of models in its advertising there's been a backlash against the move 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 enclose it i've never been able to use normal shampoo but at least i know that it isn't suitable for my dry and 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 unit leverage just saved my life unilever will drop the word normal from abuse of brother gets years of to decades of cell in fairness creams in india i thought the 1st time you live has courted controversy if you had about lost weight last year it faced huge flak over its marketing of skin whitening products in asia we put the issue about banning the word normal of the debate. 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 probably one of the most inclusive agencies and i don't think enough times are 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 that if they were leaving the room to go out at all is not it doesn't i disagree so i die i have to agree with them i mean we we've recently hired a model who went through an accident he has to be scarring she has you know think. she is doing very well now a fee is going to be shocking to say this is imposed and this is what we should be

seeing and i think removing normal is important for a lot of 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 and 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 to look at it is moving forward so i think it's a good 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 a sense of 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 well you think it's about normal imagery which 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. concerns over the u.s. presidents of mental states have deepened after he appeared to forgotten the name of his own defense secretary it onto a raft of incidents involving joe biden including his vice president calling foreign leaders and action usually reserved for the commander in chief the people report. well one should know it turns out sleepy joe biden is well still sleepy and it's becoming increasingly hard certain 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 as an arguer ration and it's hard to shake the feeling that he's being hidden from the world in a basement and when he is released into the public chaos ensues he forgets the names of people he himself appointed like defense secretary lloyd austin there who he recently referred to as that guy running that outfit over there and i want to thank the. former general i keep calling him general my mind the guy who runs out of town for you know his handlers panic at a 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 truong where 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 cabala is the one who's talking to foreign leaders deliberating middle east responses and sanctions some are even suspecting

a secret transition period has already started so americans are in kind of a rough spot on who to be following on the one hand you have a 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. ok we're watching the war hawks in a few moments say i'll see international album me back a bit your next world news updates here that.

when you have a government that's be able to print money willy nilly without and without any accountability and whatsoever you need some barca reaction to that used to be in the form of the bond market. that would all my gosh they're printing to much money we're going to drop bonds of the gold bugs would say oh my gosh you know gold's going to go higher because the government's out of control but both of those have been euthanized we don't have bond vigilantes or gold anymore but it is

a more big coin is confiscated and nobody is going to put a big coin but point what to do because you know what this money printing is out of control and we're going. to greetings and sell you taste. you know with the average age of the united states congress hovering somewhere between 58 and 63 years old in our last presidential election featuring 2 candidates who were born during w.w. 2 who grew up watching black and white televisions that were the size of today's electric cars. we should not we should not be surprised when many parts of the u.s. government and culture still find themselves lost in the grip of archaic cold war

era thinking and spending. and now where is that and nowhere is that more prevalent than in the united states obsession with nucular weapons common dreams reports that in the in a new report separate publication next week the federation of american scientists found that not only is the u.s. government planning to spend $264000000000.00 tax dollars on some brand new nuclear missiles but that the quote construction and maintenance of a new nuclear missile are mostly being fueled by intense lobbying from the powerful weapons industry not rational or human strategic objectives. of course they are and what is even more chilling is that according to the guardian the federation's report will soberly point out that.