the false confession is taken the case is closed nobody really can tell the difference between a good confession and one that isn't. 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. european medicines agency urges countries to keep using the astra zeneca vaccine after 4 nations suspend the drug over reports of blood clots. britain shuts down for brand new covert emergency hospitals built at a cost of half a $1000000000.00 pounds while public anger boils over a one percent pay rise for frontline health workers. around. and in many homes.

and yet another protest in new york against the governor with more calls for him to resign pressure is already building again over his handling of the pandemic we hear from the daughter of one care home victim whose demanding answers. thursday evening here in moscow welcome to world news from the international post the president of the czech republic has called on his government to urgently approve the russian made sputnik the covert vaccine to ease the ongoing health crisis and it spiraled into a major dispute within the leadership in prague with president calling for the health minister to be fired for dragging his feet on the issue here's our europe correspondent peter all of. well the president of the czech republic deeply unhappy with senior figures in the government of the nation he's in fact called for both

the health ministry on the minister for health to step up to the plate in 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 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 job italy and denmark could 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 the 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 or as peter mentioned a number of countries have suspended the use of the astra zeneca vaccine have reports of blood clots on that test in denmark but now the european medicines

agency which is heading the investigation says those countries should continue using the trap and the position of european medicines agency safety committee. is that the vaccines benefits continue to outweigh 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 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 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 fact of age on the effectiveness of vaccines. and of course as a you have to investigate every serious side effect and fully 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 that you can bear markets a really important thing to to find out and really anybody with the sort of oversight multi-national oversight like the air may 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. you know. there are questions there are sui slightly different from regulators in the u.k. or in other countries so overall one gets quite a broad picture. of the safety of this drug. in many different countries i tellee said to become the 1st a new state to make russia's sputnik the vaccine production due to start in july the european medicines agency is considering whether to approve the shot and 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 blocks of huge shortages from western alternatives the president of the italian russian chamber of commerce talked to us about how 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 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 tics 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 on the job innovation isn't the only russian and take over break through the russian institute of immunology is testing a drug right now which could stop infected people from spreading the disease ahead of the institute been talking to 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 has launched the world's 1st covert hospital train as it struggles with overflowing wards. 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 the 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. cases and they said they 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 the most. 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 no money down the drain that's how the u.k. is huge temporary covert hospitals are being described after it was revealed that most are being closed down having treated only a small handful of patients it's led to questions over the government's approach to the pandemic has k. partridge now reports. 4 of england's nightingale hospitals are being closed down they being 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 are unable to release frontline workers to the nightingales the government felt the need to show some some. peace that they could share what. we have created noting it was rules and. managed to create a hospital and once we've 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 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 start with not the actual number of plates that were available so the whole thing was just. for the government as i can see. while that new year medics in covert hotspots were days away from having to choose who could 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 cash for its much criticized code 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 and very cool our execution we're planning our numbers. of course are printed money and big spurts all the. non-secure all the hospitals most of which were not properly was bigger complete waste of resources. the governments the big cross was

not looking at the issue. because. if you don't grow the stocks are going. the hospital closures cover the same time the government said that it can't afford more than a one percent pay rise for n.h.s. workers nurses have launched a petition calling for a 15 percent salary hike a 1000000 have signed it while nurse explains to us what a one percent pay rise really means. to be honest i understand it's 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 park your car to go to a compact a cop and we are acutely aware of this financial strain that's negroes on u.k. by the pandemic that we're not saying that we deserve any more than anyone else we're just saying that we are also decent they will say they see what we do at the

public sector because it seems and sadly well deserved raises recently and we've been left out to ask again as an n.h.s. and i think when we talk about money and what's affordable we've just seen 67000000000 be used on it and it's actually tracking system that we pay for an n.h.s. to how shifty 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 $100000.00 nurses vacancies in the way i'm not really causes 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 unnecessary paying our staff i'm afraid. this is our take up ahead we hear from 2 lawmakers from the alternative for germany party which is hoping to gain ground in the upcoming elections because one of our stories after the break.

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ironic that all the people that are in the big point bubble 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 as we've got all these people who are involved in the crypto bubble they can't see it. hello again pressures continuing to mount against new york's under fire governor andrew cuomo a protest of homelessness and drug overdoses so police move in and make a number of arrests. great. protest as a been chanting that the governor had failed new york has now this latest demonstration comes amid a wave of anger over sexual assault allegations against and also his handling of the covert health crisis the governor's been strongly condemned for undercounting

the number of deaths in nursing homes sense of method that he made a mistake in withholding that data and we didn't provide information it allows. press 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 homes but that number excluded those who were transferred to hospitals where they later died it was then acknowledged that there had in fact been 15000 deaths in total many people lost loved ones in the pandemic to resolve his mother died in one hugo she's been demanding answers about policies which sold nursing homes taking in both positive patients. everything to make it like it was just. walking away she. could have been aborted i think it would. mean

that in that we're not going to you know can prevent this. great of a lot of people our whole especially american mom actually back. our governor. from the you know in 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 story you know ringback basically. i mean this is going on i mean they're almost a year that are still waiting that you know you don't remember how many. ringback

you know there are you know badly hit. actually. making. bad people should be more outraged and number. one. germany is gearing up for the start of a so-called super election year which kicks off with regional votes in 2 states this weekend culminates with a general election in september with chancellor angela merkel said to leave office towards the end of the year sunday's elections would have a 1st taste of the country's appetite for political change. rory sushi spoke at length with 2 german m.p.'s from one of the country's main opposition parties alternative for germany touching on topics ranging from domestic politics to covert vaccinations. how would you comment on the recent attempts by germany to most. 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. 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 this is a league ation sort of the same purpose to eliminate political opposition in drew near or at least to oppress it for the benefit of rotten 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 old western is not in a sense 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 off 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 politically motivated 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 why i 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 wixon ating europe in certain circles and imagine there were some kind of competition in the. market of we have a free market it 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. versed on a farm are a lot be as strong the you will push it and they will try to prolong the whole

procedure. the word normal is being dropped from all skincare products made by the consumer goods giant unilever 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 alone in but it's an important step forward the company polled customers and found more than 2 in 3 people for that using the word normal had a negative impact unilever also says that it's going to end the excessive air brushing of photos of models in its advertising but there's been a backlash against the moves. so sick of woken us taken to p.c. extremes normal means not only and not dry do we have to turn every term on the planet into 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 you know leverage just saved my life i saw the 1st time unilever's quarter to control the sabe fazer huge flak over its marketing of skin whitening products in asia we put the issue about dropping the word normal for debate. there's no way ordinary people think this in those kinds of numbers when it comes to the word normal the other than about using models and changing 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. 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 haynes inclusive and stay away from normal this is marketed this is a bit like we're going to change tomato sauce so it's going to be green we're going to turn salad cream into a different color we're going to start making solid cream this is just a pathetic attempt to grab more market share and also so i can i disagree i don't think that's that's you know i think if they were leaving the room to go i always know 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 accidentally has to be scarring she has you know think. she is doing very well now if she 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 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 and 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 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 offensive products that they had before 10000 people i'd love to see the steps of let's see the demographic of the 10000 people that they asked him whether they confuse the question a bit like your being confused or not my friend well you think it's above normal

imagery would your grandmother 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 or your latest kaiser report is just a moment so why are they be back in about half an hour with your next starting international news update even. when i was so it seemed wrong. but all wrong just don't call. me old yet to seep out just be active. and engaged because the trail.

once on many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look 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.