the headlines is more european countries irish is the vaccine is the fun behind the jab reveals that sign production companies in italy spain france and germany conditional though on the e.u. approving the drug use the big girls in this vaccine program is brought members spend their fury over huge disparities in the ways jobs are being shed and in germany angela merkel is itself has its worst losses in 2 key states a starting pistol is fired on the country's election but also to come after 10 years of foreign syria we look at how the conflict has changed the lives of its people and what the future holds for the country.

good afternoon you're watching r.t. international where it's just gone 3 o'clock here in moscow now more european countries have expressed an interest in working with russia sputnik the vaccine according to the russian fund behind the job companies from italy spain france and germany have agreed to launch production if the vaccine is authorized by the blocks medicines agency so let's get more on this now our correspondent joins us in the studio good afternoon mickie just talk through them the significance of these agreements that have been signed well since the start of the condo make a year ago the company that's producing sputnik the the russian direct investment fund has been very proactive in its cooperation with all partners including those in europe but there's been a lot of hesitation a lot of pushback from the from europe towards the idea of using a russian vaccine you know it were. criticised for having

a lack of dates art was even called a propaganda tool of the kremlin so and that was even after the scientific journal the lancet study showing that the vaccine was over 90 percent effective so what's now being seen as a remarkable change of tack at the tides are changing with the company revealing it's now brokered deals on a production of the with germany italy france and spain let's take a listen to what the c.e.o. of the company had to say currently there are additional talks underway on boosting production in the e.u. this will allow sputnik the to be supplied to the european single market once approval is granted but the european medicines agency we are now actively working with the e m a as part of the rolling review procedure in addition we and our partners are ready to start supplying those e.u. countries that independently authorized sputnik v. . today's development is all about you affectively finally giving approval to the

struggle for these production deals actually go ahead but there are countries are there in the decided to work independently of go ahead anyway indeed you are hungary and slovakia have already bought the russian shop with slovakia receiving its 1st shipments on monday it will no doubt come as a massive relief for the country which has really struggled with the the world's highest kovi death rate hungary meanwhile has already started vaccinations over in france the mare of nieces appealed to the north dorothy's to greenlight the procurements of the his citizens and the bavarian prime minister has also made similar appeals to the e.u. to start considering opening opening itself up to the possibility of using new options the russian vaccine the chinese vaccine now the e.u. has really struggled throughout this entire period it's signed deals with 6 western vaccines and launched talks with 2 more so far it's approved for vaccines but it's really been criticized for this really slow rollout

a lot of production glitches along the way so as the e.u. is faced with this colossal struggle the vaccinating its 450000000 people this is really quite a turnaround it's a a massively positive sign because what it spells what we hope it spells is that this could be a hugely positive sign in the fight against a coronavirus globally but also it's a positive sign because it is spelt a diplomatic win between russia and the e.u. so it does ok thank you there was a mccarran there. well listen touched on. you has admitted to failures in this vaccine program with the vice president for its commission saying that the block is struggling but for 5 member states it's actually worse than that because they've written a letter venting their anger at what they call huge disparities in the way that vaccines are being shared out raising doubts about whether the union is actually serving in their best interests more on this his saskia tape. 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 it's the recluse that point to so-called bazaars where additional agreements between member states and pharmaceutical companies remain 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 blog have the same complaint accusing brussels of not fairly dividing up the facts in pie if the 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 bulk 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 the best 'd failed vaccine rolled out greedy stop piling on public infighting don't whenever a vote is it might be time for brussels to rethink its strategy and revive the good old idea of all for $1.00 and $1.00 for role. germany's election year has got off to a rocky start for the ruling christian democratic union suffered its worst ever results in 2 k. german states with the greens and democrats maintaining that lead with more details now here's our europe correspondent peter all of. 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 paletta knit now there's serious talk about that

vote leading to the them being put out 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 in baghban fortan book 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 is what. turns 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 out task to rebuild it to require this trust through a strong election result 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 seeing 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 e 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're not happy with the way the current coalition government have handled the pandemic these results in by them 14 book and rhineland poll after that though they're 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 angola merkel. has been 10 years since the outbreak of war in syria hundreds of thousands of people have been killed in the conflict millions of civilians displaced the country's economy is also being ruined and according to the u.n. half of series children don't know life without war.

and here you can see what the war has done to syria this is the western city of homs it saw some of the fiercest battles and enjoyed 3 years see government forces recaptured it back in 2014 although the city is currently still undergoing reconstruction where young syrians have paid a heavy price to almost half of those aged between $18.24 surveyed by the red cross have lost someone in the conflict with many suffering injuries themselves so out of 3 fled their homes and almost half lost their income a most of young syrians surveyed are still struggling to meet basic needs such as food or here are some 1st hand accounts from people who were forced to leave their homes. i was in line for a 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 town and 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 is the crisis for in syria and 6 here we're now entering the 11th year it is heartbreaking but we managed to adapt my colleague neil harvey discuss the humanitarian crisis in syria with robert martini he's the director general of the international committee of the red cross. well you 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 and with carville and sanction. additional layers adding up

millions are of people over the past 12 months have been further pushed into poverty and hunger saw the situation is absolutely dire and we are going to hear and dark picture of a generation that has endured devastation loss and destruction with many missed my songs and opportunities as well as frustrated ambitions and dreams and those young people are the ones who have unveiled shoulder the challenge and the burden of rebuilding the country we have always had a very open and regular dialogue with the syrian offered to sort the the dialogue is ongoing and everything we carry out in syria is done in full transparency with all sides. of this crisis and today we are able to make a difference on the ground because of this thanks to this dialogue and also thanks to our very strong cooperation and partnership with the syrian arab red crescent on

the ground well throughout the conflict our correspondent laura gas has been covering the key events including from the front line and this documented people's lives in the war torn country in a special anniversary report he looks back now at the defining moments and forward staying to where it 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 and someone's hands and call them righteous. are you doing he asked. what is none of my dear. baghdad now let alone are 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 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

mr 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 at center that i visited they told while they had an era for the ation to nostra 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 are 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 of my hand. 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 shield 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 these 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 ists who rose to power and more moderate opposition that was was crushed and catabolic. riginal 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 go. with the 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 as a commodity to be sold for profit when we learned that our units leader was selling arms to ice with terrorists we reported it to the us 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 is 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 were 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 saw on 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 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 will we have the oil the oil is 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 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 suffered 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 the little hope for syria there is a new belief that tomorrow is going to be a better day. the world is driven by a dream shaped by. the

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