we. ask. do you admit it's false in its fact c. program. that fury over huge disparities in the way jobs are being shared. with germany anglo americans party has its worst losses 'd in 2 keys states is the starting pistol fired on the country's general election. 10 years of war in syria we look at how the conflict has changed the lives of his people and what the future holds in store for the country discussing the situation in syria the red cross director general.

there thanks so much for joining us mid day here in the russian capital this is. the e.u. has admitted to failures in his program but his commission's vice president saying the block is struggling 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 raising doubts about whether the union is best interests taylor explains. 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 the last 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 are said to have existed what kind of bizarre well the austrian chancellor is convinced that not everyone is being transparent and that 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 e.u. countries that's almost a 5th of the entire block have the same complaint accusing brussels of not fairly dividing up the fight scene. 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 code 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 that best failed vaccine rolled out greedy 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 a one on one for role. germany's election has got off to a rocky start franklin called the ruling christian democratic union suffered its worst ever results in 2 key german states the greens and democrats maintaining that

lead your correspondent peter all of it 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 pullout and that now there's serious talk about that vote leading to the 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 collaton it in terms of putting themselves in a position to be part of a future coalition government green party leaders say to voters is showing that they're sick and tired of the status quo that's what own terms trust in the

politics of democratic decisions is crumbling the reason for this is the mismanagement of the federal government during the coronavirus pandemic and especially the corruption scandals of 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 our task to rebuild it to require this trust through a strong election result 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. and masks. the really indecent behavior and shamelessness of individual m.p.'s has ensured that especially now in the last phase of the election

campaign there really is a harsh wind blowing in the face of the campaigners that wasn't just unpleasant 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 are not happy with the way the current coalition government have handled the pandemic these results in budden fortan book and rhineland poll after that though there just the very start of what's being called the super 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

. is 10 years since the outbreak of war in syria hundreds of thousands of people have been killed in the conflict that millions of civilians have been displaced the country's economy has been ruined according to the united nations half of syria's children don't know life without war. and it seems young syrians of paid a particularly heavy price almost half of those aged between $18.24 surveyed by the red cross have lost somebody in the conflict many of them suffering injuries themselves 2 out of 3 of flood homes almost half of lost their income most of the young syrians surveyed are still struggling even to meet basic needs such as food here some 1st hand accounts from people who had to leave their homes. i was annoyed

grade when the problem started everything was relatively normal until the 26th of november 20th 11 the next day things escalated in the village and the schools were closed start was the last day open the book in these 10 years have been psychologically draining everything was destroyed and we had to rebuild on top of rubble i've experienced many bad things you can't raise your emotions the physical damage was nothing compared to the emotional wounds last 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. because we live now to robert madine who's the director general of the international committee of the red cross thanks so much for coming on to r.t. robert we've just heard a sound bite there from somebody in syria heading into an 11th year now since the

conflict began how would you assess the the situation humanitarian situation in syria as it is at this moment. when did you many current situation remain extremely dire for the vast majority of syrians today almost 75 percent of the population saw 13400000 people depend on humanitarian assistance so there has been an increase of 20 percent in the last 12 month one to syrians are displaced who do evil internally or crossing the border 90 percent of syrians live below the international poverty line so live with less than 1.25 dollars a day 50 percent of the population is food insecurity 2000000 children are of school. more than 50 percent of health care facilities are not functioning within and with carville and and sanction. additional layers adding up millions

of people over the past 12 months have been further pushed into poverty and hunger saw the situation is absolutely dire you've outlined it a dire situation you did mention there i think that you're getting 20 percent more humanitarian aid into the country over the last 12 months that suggests that it's getting easier to get help out there what are the main obstacles for your organization doing its work. well i think the major obstacle to date is the depth and the magnitude of of the humanitarian crisis and it is very hard for any humanitarian organization to replace said the economy off a country like syria and we have to set priorities of course we we are always eager to increase our support though we are in contact with all of the sides in syria the syrian government the opposition in order to be able to reach those more

most in need. and realities are different there are places where. the intensity our fighting has substantially decreased which is a good thing but others where there are still a great deal of in 5000000000 and and in fighting which makes it difficult to get a there other local authorities being cooperative with their efforts we have always had a very open and regular dialogue with the syrian authorities so that the dialogue is ongoing and everything we carry out in syria is done in full transparency with all sides. of this crisis and and today we are able to make a difference on the ground because of this thanks to these dialogues and also thanks to our very strong corporation and partnership with the syrian arab red crescent on crime you know you name some of the figures that have come from

a recent survey commissioned by yourselves that the red cross in there amongst those facts and figures you mentioned that just over half of young syrians have missed out on not just one year several years of education what kind of impact do you think that's going to have on the country's future as a whole. i mean this is the survey really shows what happens to people when a crisis is allowed to continue for years and years there is a real human suffering and invisible ones i mean we remember syria with a lot of destruction but those. invisible wounds are getting deeper as time goes on it's also very clear that the conflict has really touched every aspect of the young people light. and dark picture of a generation that has endured devastation loss and destruction with many missed minds on an opportunity those well as frustrated ambitions and dreams and those young people are the ones who have unveiled shoulder that challenge and burden off

rebuilding the country so. it had thought to tragic impact on their lives and human potential and now i think the international community should really invest invest in young people and be young syrians in order to turn the page and move forward you mentioned how important is going to be in putting this country back together heart and soul and also infrastructure how are the efforts to actually just physically reconstruct the country going. and this is a massive challenge because the country is has been devastated that its infrastructure i mean i c r c we are we have been consistently working go hand in hand with local water off oranges for instance to keep the water flowing in pipes to rehabilitate think some of the sea water. and electrical installations

but of course this is only a fraction of what is needed and. massive reconstruction is needed for syrians that in order to get back to essential services running for the entire population this was picked up it was big investment but the prerequisite for this is to find a sustainable political solution to this to this conflict and also to achieve reconciliation among the syrian communities so big i mean syrians will need to reconcile to prevent a future conflict that and this will be possible only if the rights of all are up ahead and that includes of course said detainees people who are internally displaced or refugees depends and palin's are stronger children in camps like horn or arrows searching for missing people and responding to the needs of tens of

thousands of families awaiting news is crucial and those are important building blocks to words national reconciliation and eventually reconstruction off of the country. you talk about all the work that needs to be done just to rebuild syria physically you talked about the young people who are the future of the country but they've missed so much of their education are they going to have the skills to help rebuild the country and that's without even mentioning what's happened to them mentally in some of the parts of your survey you found that roughly half of young syrians that had a family member or close friend killed. many of them. had actually had to leave their homes that the mental stress that this must have taken on them i mean are you worried about what could be a tsunami of month or health issues absolutely this is the invisibles karloff or imagine today we estimate that there are only 83 psychiatry's left

working in almost furia. so imagine begad between you know the critical needs for the young syrians who overcome their side through social challenges and what is available and this is why this survey is that it is a new alarm bell a wake up call for the international community to invest massively in young people in syria not only indivisible part of course. education in school is an absolute priority but also to help them recover from the from the traumatic decade that has just. asked robert thank you so much for coming on to discuss your work and do keep up the good work please robert nardini my guest director general of the international committee of the red cross now throughout this conflict our correspondent braggers the has been covering key events including from

the front line and he's been documenting people's lives in the water and country in a special anniversary report he looks back at the syrian was defining moments and forwards to where things may be headed. 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 or when you hear the cry of a mother who's just found out that her boy's been torn apart by rebel shell this is what war looks like this is what happens when you put a gun in someone's hands and call them righteous. are you doing he asked. a lot of my dear. not a little not related. we

call it the syrian civil war but it never was for years syria has been bled dry by a war that was largely fed and fattened from abroad we knew 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 drown propaganda campaigns against assad millions and millions of dollars since bush was in office they got what they wanted the u. very action tens of thousands of jihad this from all over the world flock to syria they said this far and then they had the gall to call it somewhat out of the civil

war which they didn't want to get involved in. 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 women children lying in rows killed by poison gas ah yes the gas one of the absolute lose of the war hundreds died in the biggest such attack in damascus suburbs in 2013 both sides the government and the rebels blamed each other and then again and again and they get

naked days it was almost always the white helmet 1st on the scene a rebel propaganda and rescue group funded by the same people who put guns and missiles in militants have just so we're clear whose side the white helmets well on they operate only in territory controlled by geodes so the kurds for example wouldn't let them anywhere near their towns either 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 do these that they got up to in their free time organ trafficking staged rescues that and when the cameras are off a little fighting on the side. they told me that while they were not affiliated to us for a front despite the fact that their center was actually in a nurse or a front complex the notes from front headquarters were directly next door to the

white house center that i visited they told while they had an era for the ation to us for a front it was very likely that every other white holik group in syria did have affiliations in us or front were led by a nurse or a front militants and then the other situation this would be a scam a racket if you were a bunch of thugs to manufacture chaos and then you say hey look chaos let's do something about it like the infamous duma chemical attack of 2018 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 at 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 that we had to go to the hospital so we were 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 older white helmets activists and people i spoke to are either in need live or euphrates she would areas only one person was in damascus 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 entire district cities demolished you'll find views like this in aleppo in their eyes here in homs in damascus and 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 that's who rose to power and what moderate opposition there was was crushed and catabolic. 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 i was there it wasn't the moderates who took it it wasn't the moderates who besieged aleppo and the rebels are pushing into aleppo again. they've regrouped according to community . intercept.

people to get back get back girls. there were moderates moderates less ideologically and religiously inclined. and and more commercially minded and tripper nerds who saw all 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 unit's 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 acid's claim that he was fighting monsters terrorists quickly became

upset a spectacle in a blood soaked circus it 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 endlessly been in the headlines the president would condemn what's happening the pundits would call for more borns the common sections would be filled with war moments 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 land you in jail ass these are called sanctions and they were strict almost all trade with syria i once reported from

a cancer center for kids in aleppo and who are out me where little kids dying from perfectly treatable forms of cads or just because it's illegal si to sell them medicine when's the last time. you heard anything about these on c.n.n. or b.b.c. this is 3 year old motha 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 in aleppo 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 will. 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 for all his many many sins former president donald trump had one thing going for him he would

sometimes tell the truth uncharacteristic of presidents yes but with trump it was it was shameless the hell with international rules customs or even simple decency or oil. and that is what america is in syria for we're keeping the well we have the oil the oil is secure we left troops behind only for the oil i like the oil we get big deal well it's a remarkable situation one of the world's richest countries all coupon in the oil fields of one of the poorest countries in the world syria 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

a hot 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 the little hope for syria there is a new belief that tomorrow is going to be a better day. 50 .

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