the headlines in r.t. more european countries i rush is the vaccine is the fund behind the jab reveals it signed production deals with companies in italy spain france and germany conditional on the e.u. approving the drug meanwhile the block admits rules in its vaccine program has come from spend their fury over huge disparities in the way jobs are being shared out and also to come this hour in germany and the merkel's party suffers its worst losses in 2 key states is the starting pistol is fired on the country's general elections and half to 10 years of war in syria we look at how the conflict has changed the lives of its people and what the future holds for the country.

i. know they're just gone 4 pm here in moscow you're watching r.t. international now more european countries have expressed an interest in working with russia as a vaccine according to the russian fund behind the jab companies from italy spain france and germany have agreed to launch production if the vaccine is authorized by the block's medicines agency so let's get more now on this from our correspondent joins us again the soft name hello again mickey just go through them the significance of these deals that have been signed well since the start of the pandemic the company that producing this but the vaccine the russian direct investment fund has been very open about its plans to cooperate with partners all across the world including those in europe but what we saw was a lot of pushback and hesitation from europe towards the idea of using. a russian

produced vaccine it was criticized over having a lack of data it was even called a russian propaganda tool and that was even after the scientific journal the lancet published a study showing it was over 90 percent effective so what we're seeing now is quite a remarkable change of tack with the company revealing its broken deals with companies in germany italy france and spain let's take a listen to what the c.e.o. of the company at. currently there are additional talks underway on boosting production in the e.u. this will allow sputnik v 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. . so we should emphasize again then is the approval by the blokes medicines agency

although not everybody seems to be ready to wait for that well that's right you're hungry and slovakia have already bought the russian shot with slovakia receiving its 1st shipments of the vaccine on monday it will no doubt come as a massive relief for the country which is stuff at the world's highest co the death rate hungary meanwhile has already started vaccinations over in france we have the mayor of nice who's a pill to the or thirty's to greenlight the procurement of the for his citizens and the bavarian prime minister has also made similar appeals to the e.u. to starts considering opening itself to the possibility of using alternative vaccines be it the russian or the chinese now the e.u. has really struggled throughout this entire time it's it has signed deals with 6 western vaccine makers it's in talks with 2 more is approved for vaccines so far but there's been production glitches and that's delayed the program has been highly criticized for that so as the year is faced with this colossal job of inoculating

450000000 people this really comes as a positive sign i mean it's quite a turnaround it spells that you know if they give the go ahead to the russian vaccine it could speed up the fight against the pandemic not just in the in europe but globally but it is also where a diplomatic win between russia and europe as well potentially could work for everybody ok thanks make it was r.t. thank you. we were touched on there the e.u. has admitted to failures in its vaccine program with the vice president for its commission now saying the block is struggling but for 5 member states it's actually worse than that because they've now 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 actually serving in their best interests but more on this his saskia taylor. trapped in a never ending vaccine nightmare the bureaucrats in brussels must be thinking mon

dieu promises unreality have so epically failed to match up for the european block 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 sutton 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. 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 failed vaccine rolled out greedy stop

piling up 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 year has got off to a rocky start for the ruling christian democratic union has suffered its worst ever results and 2 k. german states with the greens and the democrats maintaining their lead with more details now is our europe correspondent peter oliver. 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 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 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 the voters is showing that they're sick and tired of the status quo that's what own towns 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 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.a. 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 conservative 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 voting book and rhineland poll after the vote 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. it's been 10 years since the outbreak of war in syria hundreds of thousands of people have been killed in the conflict to 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 he can see what the war has done to syria this is the western city of homs that saw some of the fiercest battles and ensured a 3 year sea government forces recaptured it back in 2014 although the city is still undergoing reconstruction now 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 to actually 3 fled their homes and almost half lost their income most of the young syrians surveyed are still struggling to meet basic needs such as food here are some 1st hand accounts from people who were forced 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 town that 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 4 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 these humanitarian crisis in syria with robert martini the director general of the international committee of the red cross. when did you many 22 asian 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

of people over the past 12 months have been further pushed into poverty and hunger saw the situation is absolutely dire and we're going to clear and dark picture off the generations that have 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 won video shoulder the challenge and the burden off for rebuilding the country 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 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 mary ghastly ed has been covering the key events including from the front line stuck in many people's lives in the war torn country in a special hand of the street report he looks back 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 well 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 go.

back and read a little on aren't 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 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 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 helmets 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 territory controlled by geodes so the kurds for example wouldn't let them anywhere near their towns with the syrian government or the syria 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 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 nurse or a front complex the nurse for 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 us for a front it was very likely that every other white holik group in syria did have affiliations in a store 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 on my hand. after almost 6 months of investigations i can prove without a doubt that the duma hospital scene was staged no fatalities occurs in the hospital older white helmets activists and people i spoke to are either in need lip 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 vece with your own eyes you have no idea how bad things really are the entire district cities demolished you'll find views like

this in aleppo in 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 more moderate opposition that was was crushed and khatib. 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 girls. with the moderates moderates less ideologically and religiously inclined. more commercially minded 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 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 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 boardrooms the common sanctions would be filled with war more than is 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 well 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 sun c.n.n. or b.b.c. this is 3 year old martha 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 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 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 get video 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 little hope for syria there is a new belief that tomorrow is going to be a better day. 50 .

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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 as violence 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 may hey thanks so much a.p. for coming on one of the 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 the mandate for action on climate in the economy and our group some rights movement had a huge influence on joe biden's climate plan introducing things like i just transition to.