respect for a gentleman and i hope that our family court. in the stories is shaped the way here in arteta jeffrey head of the new admits there vaccine strategy is to floored a problem made worse as a group of european states suspend he said the astra zeneca jab over reports of significant side effects meanwhile britain shuts down you coded emergency hospital bill for the cost of half a $1000000000.00 pounds at the same time as the public anger grows over a mere one percent pay rise for frontline health workers. the most is that equates to around 3 weeks and in many hospital sites across the way it costs more to pocket . and french people missy's 3 of the country's 4 national theaters saying that they cannot survive after they were shut down during the pandemic also become the.

artery dog sousa's top german newspaper a press to be knowledge claims regarding the russian opposition figure alexina about. that welcome the latest developments in a look back at what's been happening over the last 7 days you're watching the weekly here on r.t. international now the e.u. commission vice president has admitted the blocks vaccination policy is struggling and amid the crisis a number of european countries are also suspended the use of the astra zeneca jab over fears about side effects and hawkins as more. 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 is job on hold concerned about potential serious side effects of

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 its 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 jab if the brakes are put on this vaccine that is used targets 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 to top e.u. officials and all countries seem to be equal but some more equal than others you have to hear unfundable i have together with other heads of government shared our information and compared our own statistics on the 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 the research but the bizarre words

are still contracts that would member states and pharmaceutical companies are certain have existed according to austria malta for instance would receive the 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 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 astra zeneca doses supposed to be delivered just 10000000 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 supplies of russia's sport mcvie what is surprising is the reaction this 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 year to congress use the chance to save our people because the vaccine is made in russia and 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.'s 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 on 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 their protein is safety critics say it's politics whatever the true. but effective mass vaccination program still seems a distant prospect. of money down the drain this is how the u.k.'s temporary covert hospitals have been described after is revealed most are now being closed down having treated only a handful of patients and has led to questions to you over the government's approach to the pandemic escape partridge reports. 4 of england's nightingale

hospitals are being closed down they've been built at a cost of 500000000 pounds to preempt a surge in the pandemic but the east london venue treated only 54 patients in the 1st wave while others so not all the 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 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. it also turned out we start them because the main issue was basically stuff not the actual number of plates that were available so the whole thing was just. to go far as i can see why that new year medics in covert hotspots were days away from having to choose 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. 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 and 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 pounds have been spent and the impact that they've had. or the hospital closures do comes 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 received the support of more than half a 1000000 people one nurse explained to us what a one percent increase actually means. 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 your car to go to work or market top and 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 also deserving of said what we do and i think what we talk about money and what supportable we've just seems to be $7000000000.00 used on its extra 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 that we 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 way and that really causes patient safety issues across the board. i'm more than 50 performers and employees have become squatters occupying 3 of france's 4 national theatres and a cry for help they warn that the industry can no longer survive the pandemic shut down of cultural sites and of now pressure the country's minister of culture to talk with them with more his shot at the bit scary. i know i was. was. thanks. to the chorus of calls demanding the reopening of cultural venue's is growing allow day in france but with no clear end date in sight to the closure of theaters concert hall cinema museums so mother 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 a claim so good so we've all hit by the o.t. now for a week and for that he says is 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 them not knowing the details 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 the government with the cultural minister paying a visit to the squatters. i went to the occupied theater audio on i understand the concerns in particular ball 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 the owner. 6 6 there is an anger too that while small private galleries have been allowed to stay open larger places such as they serve 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 vos 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' conceded to one of the most generous support systems of all

states in the world but that system has been strained as a result of co the 19 and many claim that they have fall in through the cracks those hay say that this protest is just the start as more and more regions in france will see similar action gelati will skate oxy paris what you know we can hear and i think still to come here this hour called scribe for the governor of new york to resign amid accusations of a cover up death scene care homes due to the coronavirus we'll have this story perseveres tell you just after the break. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race off and spearing dramatic development only personally i'm going to

resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. to. the trouble with donald trump is that he exploited entirely the counter unlike my legacy he was much more successful than hillary clinton at appealing to people on the level of culture and heart and national identity and all that sort of thing but as with demagogues through human history here exploited emotion especially dark emotions like fear and hatred and resentment to serve only his own interests not the interests of the nation at large.

but again the pressure is 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 says he's met. i think we've seen so many. so many troubling things that 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 coverup and that alone is unacceptable and disqualifying when the state's health department had initially reported around 8000 fatalities in canada homes but those who were transferred to hospital and died there were excluded from

the figure is something that was deliberate to make the numbers of victims seem lower if they are added the death toll is almost twice as high cuomo has acknowledged there was a delay in the reporting of some of the deaths but victims' relatives still have questions or there is in a nursing home station he was in a nursing home for 23. when you were there were at least in theory ended my family could no longer stand in the nursing home. system was not prepared for any kind of health care emergency and i know my father still encountered it but the governor's attitude who cares where they die it does matter because it points to one where with their you know errors in their policies into why they are afraid of having those numbers revealed but we also

spoke to 2 women who lost parents to coronavirus in the cafe cities and demand the applicants the group voices the scene is they say their 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 cope 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 covert 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 force these 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 they 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 although 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 that it was not correct. process a channel in germany are to do each has filed

a lawsuit against the newspaper build his overplaying this by the berlin based tabloid that r.t. made its report to spy for the kremlin. as the details. on the face of it a sin sation old story it's got all the words 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 cooled john and his m one a 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 very little step 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 rule john as it's trying to get the latest on a top developing story our team does that it 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 value is remote 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 fan of all video agency ruptly park 247 outside the shower take clinic yes that's true in fact for a long time it was 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 to drop 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 but that was 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 apparent then on ruptly we're told that the 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 all colleagues in germany home convinced. clear attempts to see. this is an attempt that is being who can straighten 2 meters was staring and in the media at every turn against me pulls allegations in suppressing our journalistic freedoms and make an impossible task this is what it means to be an alternative voices in germany and it's also worth mentioning that doesn't exactly have the best track record 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 spotty since it showed a bombshell and a juicy spy story but actually delivers well

a day in the life of any journalist anywhere in the world. finally a special 3 d. mascot providing hope for a young girl whose face was severely burned to the palestinian refugee camp and the family of a year old mother is now counting on her recovery. when we were in school my mom picked us top and we went to the market 1st there was tones then there was fire then we got separated we didn't know where we were. 'd this.

was a little bit of. of the 4 months of therapy or doctors without borders they made this mosque they call it a 3 d. mosque that makes the skin soft and heals it up 70 percent. but when i wear the mask i feel better the doctors made it for me i used to go to the doctors to have my dressings changed then they made the mask for me now my ones are almost healed. i have this. at home i wear the mask but i don't like to wear it when i go out i feel shy when they wear it because everyone starts looking at me but the doctors told me to wear it at least 6 hours a day. i hope to wake up one day and see their faces back to normal because it's really affecting them both psychologically a pretty good for their full recovery. and we wish you well that's how the weekly

is looking here today on r.t. international thank you company this afternoon we'll be back again in about half bad. well the pandemic no certainly no borders and is blind to nationalities. has emerged little time with the we don't look like seeing the whole world needs to be. judged as coming close is the same thing. we can do better we should. everyone is contributing way but we also know that this crisis will not go on forever the challenges create the response has been masked so many good people are helping us.

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