actually came to believe the lie that they were told about their own behavior once a false confession mistaken the case is closed nobody really can tell the difference between a good confession and one that isn't. even. in the headlines this hour the czech president says his country needs to start using russia's. calls for the health minister to be fired for refusing to approve the drug. european medicines agency countries to keep using the astra zeneca vaccine for nation suspended the drug over reports of severe blood clots. written shuts down for brand new covert emergency hospitals built at a cost of hava $1000000000.00 pounds public anger boils over of one percent pay rise for frontline health workers. that equates to around 3 out of.

pocket costs. to get another protest in new york against the governor with more calls for him to resign pressure is already building against andrew cuomo for his handling of the pandemic we hear from the daughter of one care home victim whose demanding answers. with global news and international analysis this is out for a moscow. to the program 1st to 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 the president 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 v. 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 whether 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 italy and denmark of become the latest e.u.

member states to suspend its use there 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 decided to take the decision to suspend the use of astra zeneca for now as peter mentioned

a number of countries have suspended the use of the astra zeneca vaccine for 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 to use the jap the position of european medicines agency safety committee. is that the vaccines benefits continue to add to a it's risks and the vaccine can continue to be administered while investigation of cases of flu on bone bullock events is ongoing to scientists we spoke 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 what 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 the e.m.a.'s already looked at this in relation to austria and it's had 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 banks and the population so you have to look at least things very very carefully is a bit 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 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 so the number of people who are in your report said that batch of vaccine that go on to.

buy 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 touch find out and really anybody with this sort of oversight multi-national oversight like the air may do that the european metal medicines agency has to take the sort of questions and concerns of each member state into account when you know when it gives gives or thora t. i don't think that one can say the a.m.a. is being. you know the. questions they ask will be slightly different from regulators in the u.k. or in other countries so overall one gets quite a broad picture. this drug is. in many different countries or italy set to become the 1st e.u.

state to make russia but they give a vaccine production is due to start in july the european medicines agency is considering whether to approve the shot its developers though 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 huge shortages from western alternatives the 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 is 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 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 on the job innovation isn't the only russian anti covert breakthrough the russian institute of immunology is testing a drug right now that could stop infected people from spreading the disease the head of the institute's been telling 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 italy's launch the world's 1st covert hospital train as it struggles with overflowing wards it's equipped to treat the most critically ill patients. and this is a medical train that has been equipped to transport and treat critically ill patients and dose intensive care costs everybody is organized as if it's in the intensive care unit obviously this simply equipment with dest ceiling able to do

the job 7 patients can be transported in each carry each so in total $21.00 patients in intensive care over cases that have been on the rise again 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. the hospital train was made available to reinforce the territory where there is a difficulty it's approximately service the national health service that goes where there is a problem money down the drain that's how the u.k. huge temporary covert hospitals are being described after it was revealed that most are now being closed down being treated only a small handful of patients is said to questions over the government's approach to the pandemic as 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 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 of the. centerpiece that they could share what and say look how rapidly we have created is one thing it was rules and another which i know 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 that and when when the government starts to do things like essentially you're going to get the last

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 don't. go far as i can see why that new year medics in covert hotspots were days away from having to choose who 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 us. 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 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 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 big sports 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 that's the issue of the stall for small states because there's no. hospital facilities if you don't grow the stock to go in. the hospital closures come of the same time but the government said that it come for more than a one percent pay rise for n.h.s. workers nurses have launched a petition calling for a 15 percent salary hike of half a 1000000 of already signed it one person explain to us what a one percent pay rise and relieve ains. to be honest one percent is quite frankly an insult to the profession and the n.h.s. it's a home for most nurses that equates to around 3 counts if you're weak and and in many hostile sites across it costs more than that to pocket car to go to a good market car we are acutely aware of the financial strain that's the result and u.k.

by the pound and nick. 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 support me to the public sector because it seems so sadly well deserved raises recently and will be left up to sas again as an n.h.s. and i think when we talk about money and what's affordable we've just seen $67.00 b.n. be used on it and it's actually tracking straight system that we pay for an n.h.s. to house 60 percent pay rise and it would still be money left in the post after that we see nearly qualified mrs and student nurses already thinking gosh you know if i come into the right korea here we have a little 100000 if they can seize in the way i'm not me because it's patient safety issues across all that 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 necessarily paying our staff i'm afraid. we're without say ahead we hear from 2 lawmakers from the whole turnitin for germany party which is hoping to gain ground

in the upcoming elections and one of our stories still ahead of the less. you have a government that's been able to print money willy nilly without and without any accountability and whatsoever you need some barkha reaction that used to be in the form of the bond market bija landis' that went on my gosh their particular much money we're going to drop bombs or the gold bugs would say oh my god you know gold going to. higher because the government's out of control but both of those have been euthanized we don't have bond vigilantes or gold anymore because it is a more. nobody is going to put. what to do because you know what this money printing is out of control and we're going.

to what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. spearing dramatic development the only really i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very. time to sit down and talk. pressures continuing to mount against new york's under fire. a protest about homelessness and drug overdoses so police move in to make a number of arrests. a group were great. protesters have been chanting that the governor had failed new yorkers and this latest demonstration comes amid a wave of sexual assault allegations against him and also his handling of the

covert health crisis has been strongly condemned for undercounting the number of deaths in nursing homes cuomo sense of met at that he made a mistake in withholding the data. and we didn't provide information. it allows. people cynics politicians. to fill the void i just want to be sure people know these are the facts these are the facts. everything that could have been done was done. the state's health department had reported around 8000 fatalities in care homes but that number excluded those who were transferred to hospitals where they then died it was later acknowledged that the how to fact being 15000 deaths in total so many people lost loved ones in the pandemic 3 says salaries mother died in a new york care home she's been demanding answers about co most policies which saw nursing homes taking in covina positive patients. everything to make you like.

it within the next we're not going to you know couldn't prevent this i mean it was a lot of people ringback in our whole especially the nursing home actually that. are going are. you know an n.p.r. i mean. you know one other employee you know the nursing home were like you know we're going out. for a great time for me do you want to do your job and you know we're. sitting here. in palm. beach and the mom ringback and the numbers were really. on and you know this is very you know.

i mean this is going. on almost a year that you are someone you know claiming that you know your measure how many people. you know there are you know back lesion in his. actually. match. making. bad people should be more outraged again number. germany's gearing up for the start of a so-called super election year which kicks off with regional votes in 2 states this weekend and culminates with a general election in september with chancellor angela merkel set to leave office towards the end of the year sunday's elections will give her 1st taste of the country's appetite for political change. spoke with 2 german m.p.'s from one of the country's main opposition parties alternative for germany touching on a range of topics from domestic politics to covert vaccinations. but how would you comment on the recent attempts by germany's domestic intelligence agency to put

your party the a.f.d. under surveillance a secret service it's the duty to learn to several times in the past to know they destroyed the republican party and the ninety's and later also did. also with the same methods i've d. has in its rings neither less nor more extremists compared to society average because our party also is some kind of image of society or on the average league ation sort of the same purpose to eliminate political opposition in drew near or at least to oppress it for the benefit of our political system do sanctions work do they help or do they hinder professional partnerships do you think sanctions is not the right approach because if you want to have good relations with russia that are meant to be productive we shall have open conversation. being myself

a person from the west i must ask the question sanctions always punish somebody for for his behavior is the west innocent himself that's a question all the west is not innocent himself and then why does the west dare to punish russia withing tunes as if the west were a morally hiring situation and video agency ruptly they were notified by commerzbank that their bank accounts would be closed by the end of the spring now russia's foreign ministry has slammed the move as politically motivated how would you view that not to do it and is having the same who has happened to all of my colleagues to all m.p.'s of of all parliamentary group of alternative for germany party since 2018 all our private bank accounts that we held by the in spring or impost bank were closed so and this was or obviously political. what to eat it so what is it all happening with your subsidy recovery happened with us in

germany being m.p.'s in your opinion what why is it taking so long for the e.u. or thora to rule on whether sputnik very russia's vaccine can be used to me it's politics playing a part in this do you think so the process is being hampered by white saw the result of my personal analysis is there western companies manufacturers like pfizer like more dare not like us for them because they make huge a huge amount of money by you consider themselves and. there were some kind of competition in the do you market of we have a free market that should be a free market that should be a free competition of all the vaccines and the people should be informed of both of those folks scenes i'm afraid that it 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 b. is strong the will push it and they will try to prolong the whole procedure. the word normal is being dropped from all skin care products made by the consumer goods giant unilever the u.k. based firm claims the word makes 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 polled customers and found more than 2 in 3 people thought that using the word normal had a negative impact unilever also says it's ending the excessive air brushing of models in its advertising but 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 itty i've never been able to use normal shampoo but at least

i know that it isn't suitable for my dry and all 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 so the 1st time unilever's corded controller saved the last year of phase 2 to flack over its marketing of skin whitening products in asia we put the issue about banning the word normal of a 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 in change in the shots oh i agree with but the normal thing this is purely them overreacting to the trouble they landed themselves in i think it's important that they are talking about this and they are going to do this because there is it's needed we need to

keep pushing change in the industry i mean you know body land and we have probably one of the most inclusive agencies and i don't think enough times are doing enough to how that can hanes inclusive and steer 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 i always know it doesn't i disagree so i die i have to agree and then i mean we we've recently hired a model who went through an accident he 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

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 models or take on board completely what is the word normal when it comes to things like shampoo so a normal hair well is are the normal greasy or dry or cracked or damaged i think doing what they're doing what they're talking about removing almost stopping editing and editing especially on social media this is you know there is a definite trend against that. and i think what they are doing is a step in the right direction it is not the be all and end all but it is moving forward so i think it's an indication i don't think they're necessarily doing it to ground crass i think it's needed doing this purely to get market share and they're doing it purely because of their offensive products that they had before 10000 people i'd love to see the steps of let's see the demographic of the 10000 people

that they asked him whether they confuse the question ability or being confused or not my friend where you think it's about normal imagery would talk about the word 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 mockery of you on the way next hour live far from normal in a north dakota oil town that same workers a huge salaries spark a boom in the sex and drugs trade. one of the worst ever mass shootings in america was in less vegas in 2017 the tragedy exposed a little of the real last biggest where many say elected officials are controlled by casino owners the degas shooting reveal where the p.d.

really is and now it's part of this finishing 1st in the american public barely remembers that happens 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 the lives of the vegas residents to the control group to the shiny facades concealed deep indifference to the people that have been saved if they were to take an action absolutely keep the roads shrinking to slot machines doing vegas is a money machine is a huge cash register that is ran by people who don't care about people's lives being lost. seems wrong. to me that he forget to shape

out his day because at.