here you have a boom you have everything else that comes along with money. for the story to shape the way karen r.t. the deputy head of the e.u. admits there are critical flaws in the blocks vaccine strategy a problem made worse as a group of european states suspending its senate could jab over reports of significant side effects meanwhile britain shuts down for a brand new code emergency hospitals bill to the cost of a half a 1000000000 pounds the same time as public anger grows over a mere one percent pay rise for frontline health workers the most is that it takes to round trip out to 2 weeks and to many hospital sites across the. uk it. french performers the 3 of the country's 4 national 3 just saying that they cannot survive after they were shut down during the pandemic we report from one of the

occupied venues and asked to sit channel r.t. to each sousa top german newspaper over espionage claims regarding the russian opposition figure alexy never found. hello the latest news and a look back at what's been happening over the last 7 days you're watching weekly here on r.t. international the e.u. commission vice president has admitted the block's coded vaccination policy is struggling and amid the crisis a number of european countries have also suspended the use of the astra zeneca jab over fears about side effects with more his than hawkins. what could be more boring than covert surely not the very thing meant to protect you from the virus yet some are worried countries more than just one or 2 of choosing to put vaccinations with

astra zeneca as job on hold concerned about potential serious side effects are officially no link has been found denmark was the 1st with norway and iceland following suit the effects snowballed with another half a dozen nations suspending at least one particular batch of $1000000.00 doses the european medicines agency is urging calm giving it a jab at the benefit of the doubt until further notice the position of the european mats and siege and sea safety committee is that the vaccines benefits continue to risks and the vaccine can continue to be administered while investigation of jesus and from one balik advance isn't going. the world health organization is also remaining optimistic after all there's not enough doses to go around with the oxford job if the brakes are put on this vaccine that he used target of 70 percent of vaccinated by summer would look even more distant than today so blood clots are

not for now it must remain a part of the plan even if some experts question in the risks people suffering diseases all the time and you need to be sure that where any of beds that you see any effects that you see are the vaccine or 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 if this new curveball with concerns over side effects wasn't enough the e.u. remains divided over its vaccine supply system with at least 5 member states submitting a complaint the top e.u. officials and all countries seem to be equal but some more equal than others you have to hear and from the book i have together with other heads of government shared our information and compared our own statistics on that distribution among e.u. member states and when you do that you notice that their mounts delivered do not

correspond to the respective population numbers. but the bizarre words are still contracts but when member states and pharmaceutical companies are certain have existed according to austria malta for instance would receive 3 times as many of those as per capita as ball garia and all allegedly because of backroom deals struck between some governments and big pharma the e.u. says it's up to member states that aside on their own vaccine deals unless of course they get the russian vaccine but more on that later the starting point of the commission is to distribute doses based on population that member states can ask for less all more of a particular vaccine in this context and following talks between member states. it is possible that a new distribution plan is agreed with the company the vaccine shortage is increasingly looking like a drought out of around $100000000.00 astra zeneca doses supposed to be delivered just $10000000.00 have been received and the e.u. is really losing patience with being labeled the bad guy we see esther's any case

delivering below 10 percent of what had been contracted for the 1st quarter we are tired of being the scapegoat it's not surprising some states are looking elsewhere to solve vaccine supply problems slovakia for one recently recording the highest death rate per 1000000 in the world as requested suppliers of russia's sport mcvie what is surprising is the reaction is decision caused with the country's health minister forming on his own sword to stop a complete collapse of the government we are an integral part of the congress use the chance to save our people only because the vaccine is made in russia i'm not a killer across the border in the czech republic with the world's 2nd highest number of cobra deaths per 1000000 we could see another minister leave his post this time for opposing the use of the sputnik job with the country's president insisting he won't wait for the e.u. is approval while lives are lost i would like to say that the 2 biggest obstacles

to delivering sputnik the to the czech republic are the minister of health and also the director of the state institute for drug control 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. hungary slovakia the czech republic were all convinced by the publication and peer review of data and sport mcvie in the world's top medical journals many weeks ago the e.u. has discouraged any countries from making their own decisions on the vaccines use calling it a russian roulette yet only began their own medical agency's review days ago a process which could take months they say there prodi is safety critics say its politics whatever the truth and effective mass vaccination program still seems a distant prospect. in one money down the drain that is how the u.k.'s huge temporary cave that hospitals have been described after is revealed most are now

being closed down having treated only a handful of patients led to questions over the government's approach to the pandemic is a partridge and 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's an element of basically showing of those who are trying to reassure that they were doing and why and when the government starts to do things right now is ensure you're going to get the waste of money there's 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 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 us. cash for its much criticised covert 19 track and trace system 37000000000 pounds of taxpayers' money prompting a scathing report from a westminster spending watchdog despite the unimaginable resources throwing at this project testing trace cannot point to a measurable difference to the progress of the pandemic british experience 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 chancellor really 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 $280000000000.00 pounds have been spent and the impact that they've had while the

hospital closures do come as the government says 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 rise which is so far receive the support of more than half a 1000000 people one nurse explains worse water one percent increase actually makes . to be honest one percent is quite frankly an insult to the profession and to the n.h.s. it's a home for most nurses that equates to around 3 counts a few weeks and in many hostile sites across the u.k. it costs more than that to park a car to go to work or market top and we are acutely aware of this financial strain that's the present 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 deserving of said what we do and i think what we talk about money and what supports or we've just seen 30 $7000000000.00 used on its

extra system that we pay for an n.h.s. to have to 50 percent pay rise and it would still be money left in the doctor after that we'll see nearly qualified nurses and student nurses already thinking gosh you know if i come into the right career here we have over 400000 nurses vacancies in the day and that really causes patient safety issues across all that. i more than 50 performers and employees have become squatters occupying 3 of france's 4 national theatres and a cry for help they will move the industry can no longer survive after cold 4 sides were closed down during the pandemic and of night pressure the country's minister of culture to talk with them. visited one of the venues. i don't know why was. the chorus of calls demanding the reopening of cultural venue's is growing allow

day in front but with no clear end date in sight to the closure of theaters concert hall cinema museums so more taking more drastic measures over the last week 3 of france's 4 national theatres including this one behind me have been occupied by protesters it is true that every day several times a day we take another place a new theatre a new national stage is occupied in this way with multiply in the case of resistance to make our claims hood so we've all hit by the o.t. now for a week and for that it serves as a place of residence the odeon is a symbolic place it was occupied in the $968.00 process there are already struggles that have been expressed in this place in fact it was the base to signal the alarm of the cultural catastrophe which is taking place protesters who set up shop here at the boat in fear to say they won't leave until their demands are met and i

wanted that now we're determined to hold on until we're satisfied we do not claim the reopening at all costs it is not part of our main slogan contrary to what some media mean we want things to be reopened with social rights for all and massive plan for culture and above all the total reform of the unemployment insurance and the right to unemployment benefits guaranteed for all. the issue has even reached the government with the cultural minister paying a visit to the squatters. i went to the occupied theater audio on i understand the concerns and particularly of all the aftermath of the whites here they know it why objective is to continue to protect artistic employment as much as necessary we will continue our discussions days later though and nothing has changed if the sector already hit badly by the 1st wave of the covert pandemic with performers

taking to the streets to make their plight no thank you thank you. thank you who. were. 6 there is a hunger to do that while small private galleries have been allowed to stay open larger places such as this of how to remain shut protesters say that it is possible to open up cultural venues and ensure the people remain socially distanced as if the louvre museum the also a museum the big museums in paris these a vast places where social distancing would be respected but they are closed. these are the decisions which are purely political through this there is a very clear choice of society that emerges what is essential to the market and what is not essential concerns culture it concerns all the things that nourish hope

nourish reflection this is what power has in its sights through its political choices from spies' consented to have one of the most generous support systems of all states in the world but that system has been strained as a result of kobe 19 and many claim that they have 4 legs through the cracks those hey say that this protest is just the start as more and more regions in france will see similar action challenge even skate oxy paris still ahead on the weekly cool drive for the governor of new york to resign amid accusations of a cover up in the number of deaths in care homes during the pandemic what have a look at this story because of this thing just after the break.

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again the pressure his mounting on the governor of new york andrew cuomo to step down amid a growing scandal over the cover up of deaths in care homes during the pandemic among those calling for him to quit his the city's mayor i think we've seen so when we. so many troubling things have come out just in a matter of weeks starting with the fact that thousands of people died in the nursing homes and we still don't have the truth about that and their families need and deserve the truth and we know one thing there was a purposeful cover up and that alone is unacceptable and disqualifying all the state's health department had initially reported around $8000.00 fatalities in care homes but those who were transferred to hospital and died there were excluded from

the figures some think that that was deliberate to make the number of casualties seen lower but if those victims are added the death toll is almost twice as high cuomo has acknowledged there was a delay in the reporting of some deaths but victims' relatives still have questions . or there is in a nursing home for rehabilitation in the nursing home for 23. when he gets here there were a shit period ended my family picked him up he could no longer stand in the nursing home. system was not prepared for any kind of health care or emergency and i know my father still encountered it but the governor's attitude of who cares where they die it does matter because it points to one where where they're you know errors in their policies and to why aren't they afraid of having

those numbers revealed. but we also spoke to 2 women who lost parents to coronavirus in the nursing facilities and of my set up the advocacy group voices for seniors they say that care home deaths are not a priority for politicians my father is still among the uncounted because he was released from a nursing home rehabilitation center after next surgery knowingly with the virus he was labeled a covert suspect in his nursing home paperwork and made him test him they didn't treat him they didn't tell us and unfortunately we were the ones when we got him home that had to put him in a hospital when he came home he was in terrible condition and he collapsed on the driveway exposing my whole family to cohabit and we all got sick shortly there after. my father unfortunately lost his life on april 14th after being on a ventilator for almost 2 weeks and it was purely preventable he was only 76 years

old he was a healthy man and it was a pure cova death the facility failed her. and the state failed her. i think that right now at least many of the deaths that happen in nursing homes were because of a mandate or more but in that ortiz facilities to take in patients when they were not equipped to take care of them so it's a combination of both my mother's facility was reporting 40 deaths back in april when my mother died and she was not part of that number because she died at the hospital so when months and months continue to pass and it stayed up 40 we knew that that number could not be correct i mean you're not going to tell me that 40 people die on a one shot and then no one dies for months so when the number actually came out we were we were basically you know we were found to be true or that it was not correct . but the news this week our sister channel in germany r.t.

do each has filed a lawsuit against the newspaper billed its over claims by the tabloid that r.t. made this report a spy for the kremlin. has more. on the face of it a sin sation old story it's got all the words 7 to draw or read to read spawn i public enemy number one russia but a closer look and not sensation falls apart basically daniel lined up an r.t. to each employee claims he was essentially used as a spy for the channel and then all the information he was gathering on kremlin critic alex anan found me when he was recuperating in a bill and clinic for legit poisoning was being put straight into the hands of russian president vladimir putin since ational rights were not quite because the evidence seems more taken from a manual called john ism water one inspiring want to one as proof screenshots of a chat with editors i'll tell you these chats

a common practice that the easiest way for reporters producers cameraman tech guys to coordinate and also tell you that pretty boring filled with the logistical stuff and despite claims his chart was pretty boring too yes he was also to go inside the shower take clinic one found he was schooled investigative journalism it's called trying to get ahead of other outlets so that you get the scoop in fact build was one of the most active moles inside the hospital as the head of our to do each reminds us to accuse us of spying and at the same time to post images of the every little step to develop he makes including pictures of his garden to host a word if russian intelligence wanted to get any additional information they would buy a subscription to build plants and of course we want to remind our colleagues of german that you slay ssion that for now at least protect the media and lowering it to collect information and metis that are considered to be of public interest so bill

does that it's true john it's trying to get the latest on a top developing story our team does that it's spying more than a tinge of hypocrisy that claim that this work. group was filled with nefarious spying requests is also undermined by the fact that when he questions whether getting a hidden camera recording of what's inside toward one volume has remained to be which is on german military and is appropriate his boss writes clearly no i don't think so not exactly the most ruthless of spying attempts than evidence number 2 is the video agency ruptly 247 outside the shower take clinic yes that's true in fact for a long time it was a live streamed on you tube talk about money to cover in the same way our tireless ruptly cameramen camped night and day outside the ecuadorian embassy in london to counter the truly sensational moment the jury and

a son was dragged out we were the only ones to get these pictures and every outlet in the world was behind them they appreciate a drop in his journalism back then but not now and the final damning allegation the anti employee in charge of lying does assignment was photographed with the russian foreign minister froth at a public christmas party the horror never mind that this was one of hundreds of photos taken all of that that were hundreds including foreign journalists apparently this one photo is incontrovertibly proof that r t 2 each on the russian government are in cahoots you also have to ask yourself do you believe in coincidence not long ago auntie deutsch announced it's opening a channel in germany shortly after problems started headline summed up a smear campaign appeared then on ruptly we're told that that bank accounts in germany would be shot within months fast forward and now are being labeled

a kremlin spies like i said coincidence you decide for that part of colleagues in germany convinced. what we see. is a clear attempt to see this is an attempt that is being distributed to me that i was going to love and was staring and in the media at every turn being smeared with fools allegations and suppressing our journalistic freedoms and make an impossible task this is what it means to be an alternative voice in germany and it's also worth mentioning that doesn't exactly have the best track record what between 20152028 was hit with 72 reprimands from the german media regulator that's almost a 3rd of the total in that time frame something to bear in mind when you jump head 1st into this latest offering from the top lawyer and offering that promise is spiced sensation a bombshell and a juicy spy story but actually delivers well

a day in the life of any journalist anywhere in the world. and world news in brief will start with these demonstrations in london. i. made arrests and clashed with protesters that a vigil for a woman found dead this month thousands came out to pay tribute to 33 year old sarah ever are despite the vigil being cancelled amid social distancing concerns a police officer from kent in england appeared in court on saturday charged with kidnapping and murder police have also made arrests in clash with anti lockdown demonstrators in dresden in germany thousands gathered in the city center despite a ban on public gatherings some of the protesters needed medical treatment and dozens have gathered near the capitol building in washington d.c. to protest the miles long 7 foot high fence set up around the seat of government

they called for a movable barrier as a minimal alternative to the current razor wire it was put up after the attack on the capitol on january the 6th lawmakers on both sides of congress are also angry saying the wall restricts access to miss story building and is way overpriced costing more than a $1000000.00 a week to take. him out is that we are not international thanks being with us this afternoon we'll be back again at the top here. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race in this spear in dramatic development only really going to exist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk.

one of the worst ever mass shootings in america was in las vegas in 27 the tragedy exposed a little of the real last big. when many say elected officials are controlled by can see you notice the change is shooting revealed what v m p d really is and now it's partly based in the sheen best of the american public barely remembers that it happens but just shows you the power of money in las vegas the powerful showed that true colors when the pandemic hits the most contagious contagion we've seen in decades and then you have a mayor who doesn't care so here's carol i goodman offering the lives of the vegas residents to the control group to the shiny facades concealed deep indifference to the people could have been saved if they were to take an action absolutely key to

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expensive for me. and her financial difficulties have gotten worse since she started to accommodate her niece jennifer an unemployed single mother who has 3 children to take care of. leah. lindsey and jade fortunately jennifer receives food stamps. every months on the 1st day. according to how many kids you have and your income they put you know so much on there and i get every month on the 1st i'll get like $64640.00 just basically just for food. $560.00 euros a month to feed 5 people a tight budget before going shopping but 2 women check the balance on their card.