you admits flaws in his frank c. programmers blog members vent their fury over huge disparities in the way jobs have been shared out. every. party suffers its worst losses in 2 piece dates is the starting pistol fired on the country's general elections. and after 10 years of war in syria we look at how the conflict has changed the lives of his people the future holds in store for the country. thanks so much for joining us this morning this is r.t. international. the european union has admitted to failure in its vaccine

program with its commission vice president saying that the block is struggling but for 5 member states it's worse than that they've written a letter venting their anger at what they call huge disparities in the way vaccines are being shared out and it's raising doubts about whether the union is serving their best interests. trapped in a never ending vaccine nightmare the bureaucrats in brussels must be thinking mon dieu promises on reality have so epically failed to much up for the european bloc that they've been left with no option but to apologize it is true that mistakes were made when ordering the vaccines in brussels as well as in the member states the main issue has been delivery to laze of the astra zeneca job the initial deal of 18000000 doses was slashed to just 31000000 with the recent warning promising another months long hold up all this leaves the e.u. as target of 70 percent of adults vaccinated by late summer looking like

a pipe dream but it's not just getting vaccines off the production line that's the problem no it seems the problem is far closer to home because despite all its pledges to defeat covert 1000 with coordinated responses and united fronts some feel the e.u. is not living up to its core values as a tight knit family there is said to have been a bazaar where additional contracts between member states and pharmaceutical companies to have existed and what kind of bizarre well the austrian chancellor is convinced that not everyone is being transparent and certain member states are doing separate deals with pharmaceutical companies on the sly he's also annoyed that some countries like germany are picking up fact seen so far unclaimed by others and he's not the only $15.00 e.u. countries that's almost a 5th of the entire blog have the same complaint accusing brussels of not fairly

dividing up the facts in pie if that system were to carry on it would continue creating an exacerbating huge disparities among member states by the summer whereby some will be able to reach herd immunity in a few weeks while others would like far behind nothing says e.u. solidarity. like feeding yourself whilst your brothers and sisters go hungry according to this uneven system multo would get more fight scenes than bald area which has a population almost 14 times launched an equation even cuts in coast scratching their heads and feeling like they've been cheated cheated out of the shot they say is our only shot at a return to normal life that we can leave behind soaring unemployment and so that people don't feel pushed to the brink and onto the streets.

but it's not just knocked down fatigue it's easy you fatigue apparently now sizable chunks of the blocks population feel that families image has taken a big hit over the past year proving the best failed vaccine rolled out greed to stop piling on public infighting during one of the vote it might be time for brussels to rethink its strategy and revive the good old idea of who for one and one for all. germany's election year is going to a rocky start from the ruling christian democratic union suffered its worst ever results in 2 key german states with the greens and democrats maintaining their lead correspondent ability to all of us picks up the story. this will be

a big wake up call or at least it should be a wake up call for the christian democratic union they've posted their worst ever historically low numbers in 2 key states in the southwest of germany and bob important book and the rhineland polite and that now there's serious talk about that vote leading to their them being cutouts of government in those 2 states once the horse trading over coalitions is finished while the christian democratic union suffered big losses the big winners were the green party quite literally. but certainly in rhineland palapa that in terms of putting themselves in a position to be part of a future coalition government green party leaders say the voters is showing that they're sick and tired of the status quo that's what thrown in the arts at times trust in the politics of democratic decisions is crumbling good the reason for this is the mismanagement of the federal government during the coronavirus pandemic and

especially because russian scandals and the c.d.u. as a result the basis of trust in democratic processes as a whole is being lost to a certain extent and it will be on time to rebuild it for it to require this trust through a strong election years and you heard it mentioned there but the c.d.u. on their bavarian says the party the christian social union the c s u they're embroiled in a big corruption scandal at the moment which is seen 3 members of parliament quit already over well what's being called pun demick profiteering over ties to them getting cash in making money out of deals for p p masks does. the really any decent behavior and shamelessness of individual m.p.'s has ensured that especially now in the last phase of the election is campaigning there really is a harsh wind blowing in the face of the campaigners that it wasn't just unpleasant us it put

a lot of strain on the elect. campaign well that scandal plus growing dissatisfaction over pandemic management has seen the concert of union bloc drop to 30 percent in national polling that's the lowest they've been in a year but it's not just at the polls that people have been showing their dissatisfaction this weekend just marking the one year anniversary of the 1st anti lockdown demonstrations and yet again we saw people out on the streets of germany saying they're not happy with the way the current coalition government has handled the pandemic these results in putting forth and book and rhineland poll after that though they're just the very start of what's being called the voting here in germany that culminates with the big bundestag elections taking place in september when we know who we will know who will be the successor to angela merkel. it's been 10 years since the outbreak of war in syria hundreds of thousands of

people have been killed in the conflict millions of civilians have been displaced by the country's economy that's been ruined according to the u.n. half of syria's children don't know life without war. young syrians are paid a heavy toll almost half of those aged between 18 and 24 hours surveyed by the red cross have lost someone in the conflicts with many suffering injuries themselves 2 out of 3 fled their homes almost half lost their income a most young syrians surveyed are still struggling to meet basic needs such as food or some 1st hand accounts from people who had to leave their homes. these 10 years have been psychologically draining everything was destroyed and we had to rebuild on top of rubble you have experienced many bad things you can't raise your emotions

is the physical damage was nothing compared to the emotional wounds. i come from a family of artists everyone makes music and does painting and drawing and that sort of thing and i wanted to go to university or work a normal person and build my future but unfortunately it didn't work out of. 10 years have passed since the crisis 4 in syria and 6 here we're now entering the 11th year it is heartbreaking but we managed to adapt. the trial the conflict our correspondent has been covering key events including from the front line documenting people's lives in the war torn country and this special anniversary report he looks back at the syrian most defining moments forwards to where things may be headed we call it the syrian civil war but never was for years syria has been bled dry by a war that was largely fed and fattened from abroad we know that now courtesy of

hillary clinton's leaked diplomatic cables. making the point repeatedly that the regime wants this to look like turn into sectarian violence and the very least that can be broadcast back into syria in various ways that will encourage protest as the united states we knew funded and ran propaganda campaigns against assad millions and millions of dollars since bush was in office they got what they wanted the you very action was 'd the. it was thank you thank you. oh are you the u.r.l. . of the of the law the father

was late burning stronger and stronger every day as tens of thousands of jihad this from all over the world flock to syria they said this far and then they had the gold to cool it somewhat out of the civil war which they didn't want to get involved that i have resisted calls for military action because we cannot resolve someone else's civil war through force particularly after a decade of war in iraq and afghanistan the situation profoundly changed though on august 21st when assad's government gassed to death over a 1000 people including hundreds of children. the images from this massacre are sickening. men and women children lying in rows killed by poison gas.

yes the gas one of the absolute lose of the war hundreds died in the biggest such attack in damascus suburbs in 2013 broussard's the government and the rebels blamed each other and then again and again and again in later days it was almost always the white helmet 1st on the c a rebel propaganda and rescue group funded by the same people who put guns and missiles in militants hands just so we're clear whose side the white helmets well on they operate only in territory controlled by joggers so the kurds for example wouldn't let them anywhere near their towns or with the syrian government or the syrian democratic forces for good reason this group is by all reports poison we heard at the un panel what are these that they got up to in their free time organ

trafficking staged rescues and when the cameras are off a little fighting on the side they told me that while they were not affiliated to us or front despite the fact that their center was actually in a no sort of front complex the news for front headquarters where directly next door to the white house center that i visited they told while they had an era for us for a front it was very likely that every other white helmick group in syria did have a variation in us for front were led by a nurse or a front militants and then the other situation this would be a scam a racket if you are a bunch of thugs to manufacture cancer and then you say hey look chaos let's do something about it i think the infamous duma chemical attack of 2000. than 18 when they accused asaad of dropping gas on a random house after he'd won the battle for no reason that makes sense shock

horror and the great reason to let loose dozens of cruise missiles at syria except you know bad production. we were in the basement my mother told me that we had run out of food and wouldn't have anything to eat until tomorrow i heard noise outside somebody was shouting they would have to go to the hospital so we went there when i came in some people grabbed me and started pouring water over my head after almost 6 months of investigations i can prove without a doubt that the duma hospital scene was staged no fatalities occurred in the hospital all the white helmets activists and people i spoke to are either in the lip or euphrates sheild areas only one person was in damascus. for all his many many scenes former president told trump had one thing doing for him he would sometimes tell the truth uncharacteristic of presidents yes but with trump it was

it was shameless the hell with international law customs or even simple decency or oil. and that is what america is in syria for we're keeping we have the oil the early secure we left troops behind only for the oil i like the oil we're getting the oil it's a remarkable situation one of the world's richest countries occupying the oil fields of one of the poorest countries in the world syria year after year i reported from syria and many of you may have followed the war but take my word for it until you see this with your own eyes you have no idea how bad things really are. district cities demolished will find use like this in aleppo. here in homs in damascus the question isn't where did you

start it's what do you start with they said it would be the good guys who'd fight as had the freedom fighters but it wasn't it wasn't the democrats it wasn't the liberals it wasn't the freedom fighters it was the radicals the extremists the jihad ists who rose to power and more moderate opposition there was was crushed and khatib. original of the argument was we don't know them very well when we got to know them but it was they don't have very good backgrounds the pentagon thought it could change that it pumped hundreds of millions of dollars into training. dirk's rebels they hoped they would raise an army of $5000.00 fighters what they got is one of the most embarrassing testaments in the history of congress can you

tell us what the total number of trained fighters remains. it's a small number and. the ones that are in the fight there is or is is we're talking 4 for far from the $500000000.00 they managed to theall the 4 or $55.00 this full or 5 fold entirely sure the rest they frocks who are nusra front they deserted with their shiny new guns bombed and burned their way across towns and cities hosting the black flag of jihad i saw it i was that it wasn't the moderates who took it lib it wasn't the moderates who besieged aleppo and the rebels are pushing into aleppo again. the free group according to community. intercept.

people to get back get back go. with what i saw in syria will always stay with me it's shocking when you see a father cradling a baby killed by a bullet well when you hear the cry of a mother who's just found out that her boys been torn apart by rebel shell these is what war looks like this is what happens when you put a gun and someone's hands and cool them right shifts. do you did he ask. why did you. not really. bad and they're not good no not really.

there were moderates moderates less ideologically and religiously inclined and more commercially moderate and tripper nerds who saw the shiny guns that were being handed out by the pentagon lot as a tool to fight oppression but is a commodity to be sold for profit when we learned that our units leader was selling arms to isolate terrorists we reported it to the u.s. head of the base but after a report no measures were taken americans only ramped up the support for him it was never a secret that jarvis hijacked the revolution in syria what it was was an open secret everyone knew about it but you just didn't say it out loud otherwise you would legitimize acids claim that he was fighting monsters terrorists quickly became

upset a spectacle in a blood soaked circus they kept saying the same thing that it was all for the good of the syrian people the united states opposes the use of violence against peaceful protesters in syria and we support the universal rights of the syrian people for the sake of the syrian people the time has come for president assad to step aside for 10 years syria has and literally been in the headlines the president would condemn what's happening the pundits would call for more borden's the common sections would be field with warm all this calling for blood here's a test a basic test they do know that selling american or european medicine to syria to this day could lead to. in jail ass these are called sanctions and they were strict almost all trade with syria i once reported from a cad's the center for kids in aleppo and who are out me one little kids dying from

perfectly treatable forms of cads or just because it's illegal c. to sell them medicine when's the last time you heard anything about these sun c.n.n. or b.b.c. this is 3 year old what she had i counsel they could have treated it but western sanctions made getting the medicine impossible and the only hospital that specialized in cancer and a level in the hospital was taken by rebels and destroyed in fighting they had to amputate her but she's fine now she lives many other kids. almost over children who died of cancer have done so because of european sanctions we asked the european union and humanitarian agencies to lift the sanctions and let cancer manson in because children are suffering the truth these few even know what's going on anymore one of the 1st things that biden did when he came to power

was launch more strikes in syria so what people have stopped being told about syria and suffering a recent poll in britain found that only a little over hof of respondents even know that the syrian war is still a thing this tragic commemoration of 10 years of this brutal conflict is being compounded by the fact that in the u.k. and throughout the west the suffering of the syrian people is being forgotten and ignored seems to be little hope for syria there is a new belief that tomorrow is going to be a better day the war has crushed any faith that people had this is a country that was beaten burned and broken and is now being robbed. then open daylight and no one cares not enough to do anything about it there is no hope for syria a lot like this. the course of the syrian war changed in september

2015 around the time so-called islamic state was at the height of its power that's when the russian military put its weight behind the syrian government to help push the group out of the country but since then russia has become an integral part of the peace process helping to broker a monitor last year's ceasefire agreement as well as supplying humanitarian aid for the syrian people auntie's briffa national reports from problem syria about russia's role in the country. let me i mean russian air base here and fear is northern province of what track it takes up a relatively small piece of lens but it helped when the whole country back how i'll show you follow me.

here for. the taking by ship like that to go find our forces waiting for their defeats predicted it was a very important moment in russian navigation played a very important role might see one over the name changed was among the 1st pilots to come here back in 2015 with wildstorm group in 2015 things were close to the point of no return the country could have ceased to exist our forces played a crucial role in the conflicts. i. live to give you an understanding of how intensive to mission has been since the start in the 1st 24 hours with the help of russian navy ation the syrian army

managed to take back. and push the enemy back 70 kilometers. to the road still the problem that. russian fighter jets can fly in any weather but sound and sound are not the best friends here thousands of miles away. from home each of them has their road. to protect from climate and from spine eyes. the air bases here in syria to keep the peace but it may become a target itself and requires protection and this is just one of many components of the bases solid security umbrella but it's all those. who are immortal.

as it were in the. may mean air base that it was several tense in the middle of nowhere had its grew to real town with streets and boulevards a church and a dream cafes and restaurants bakeries and beauty saloon it is a symbol of peace for syria and the reason a sense of real calm here. when you know when you post we will miss the boys in your force way in committee just your most loyal. to me as you are throwing your scores to uphold you know. but ending the war is just the 1st step in bringing live in syria back to normal had a decade of crisis has left too many scars and russian support goes far beyond military victories in the last 5 years russia has helped 2000000 syrian refugees return home

main roads were finally cleared and reopened russian medics have also treated around 130000 syrian citizens the defense ministry says nearly 3000 humanitarian operations delivered tons of food water medicine and basic supplies for series civilian population. the latest here in southwestern syria where the 1st anti government protests erupted 10 years ago. it's going slowly but life is beginning to fill. streets of series cities once again. i have spent half of my life and war we've been through a lot we have become patient i feel old even the way i look young people have to work harder to cover their expenses and support their families life has become more difficult when we are stronger and ready for any outcome we have to keep on living despite all the difficulties. economic situation is there are difficult we

cannot provide our children with the most basic necessities clubs and. i want things to see red the way they used to be. but the war has affected everything life has gotten worse the russians played the biggest role in the crisis they helped us greatly made our lives easier during the economic blockade helped liberate territories and supplied us with wheat and rice. i remember this street in the old city of the capital damascus empty we show up some galleries shut down and fear in the air that it could be shelled at any moment and it was the same gloomy mood basically all over the country 10 years on locals still spend hours queuing for fuel or bread so many of them might jobless but they say police this guy's involved now clear briefing otieno our team from damascus in syria. things are rather

they don't forget though the main you can check out our website r.t. dot com plenty more new stories for you that. i'm action or thought you were going underground for another lockdown edition of the u.s. president joe biden's 1.9 trillion dollar code relief bill was hailed by centrist democrats as a big coronavirus achievement in the country with the west death toll in the world could be one multibillion dollar business that as weathered coronavirus well has been drugs and we'll speak to reading stone's matt taibbi about his new book the

business secrets of drug dealing later in the show but 1st we knew joe biden was for fracking but did we know how much he would support fossil fuel pipelines this violence of demonstrations continue against the $8000000000.00 lying 3 project in minnesota let's go straight to philadelphia to speak to the sunrise movements john paul mahela thanks so much a.p. for coming on what on earth is is going on i thought everyone loved joe biden for counseling keystone x.l. right now really battling with what it is that joe biden was elected on we know that youth voter turnout and voters of color came out and you stuart rose this year to joe biden and calmly harris the big 3 on their ticket and the reason that beijing mount is because they were electing these leaders on all of humanity for action on climate in the economy and our group sunrise movement had a huge influence on joe biden's climate plan introducing things like just transition and making all.