well i was speaking to us of the world of politics sports business i'm sure i'll see you there. for european countries i russia is putting a vaccine is the fund behind the job reveals it has signed production deals with companies in italy spain france and germany although that is conditional on the e.u. approving the drug thing while the bloc admits floors in its vaccine program has countries vent their fury over huge disparities in the way jobs have been shared their act but also to come this hour after 10 years of ford syria we look at how the conflict has changed the lives of its people and what the future holds for the country.

clothes a good afternoon just gone 5 o'clock in moscow you watching r.t. international now more here ripping countries have expressed an interest in working with russia for the vaccine according to the russian fund behind the jab companies for mislead spain france and germany have agreed to launch production if the vaccine is authorized by the blocks medicines agency earlier high spoke to r.t. new karen about this and how these cooperation agreements have developed. since the start of the pandemic the company that producing this 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 of the active so what we're seeing ringback 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 had to say 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 markets once approval is granted but the european medicines agency we are actively working with the e m a is 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 here is the approval by the blocs 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 hungary meanwhile has already started vaccinations over in france we have the mayor of nice who is a pill to the author a tease 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 there's been production glitches and. that's delayed the inoculation program has been highly criticized for that so as the e.u. is faced with this colossal job of inoculating 450000000 people this really comes as a positive sign i mean it's quite a turnaround if they give the go ahead to the russian vaccine it could speed up the fight against the pandemic it's also where the diplomatic win between russia and europe as well will mean marvie you has admitted to fail is in its vaccine program

vice president for its commission saying that the block is struggling but a 5 member state is actually worse than that because they have 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 more mrs saskia. 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 $31000000.00 with the recent warning promising another months long hold up all this leaves the e.u.

is 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 but it has 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 vaccine 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. into this uneven system multo would get more fight scenes than bald area which has a population almost 14 times. 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 so 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 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 all. now a 3rd wave of covert cases his forces really into a new long time with some of the country's hospitals are overrun with patients schools restaurants shops museums when i will be closed in the highest risk area is the measures have been rushed through and will remain in place until at least the easter weekend beginning of april will hit every region of the country too to some

degree but the island of sittin in the least affected many knisley preparing for a rough ride. i hope the lock down is only until easter who hold it is not for the next 2 months because we're here to do all we're asking us how can we do it ross must if we can't leave home to put up with all the money and unfortunately we will start to suffer a lot again and this is really the last straw if we don't return to normalcy after easter we will not make it. was today that we are forced to limit our freedom i think it is necessary at the moment and of course we will continue on this path as long as it is necessary at least until we are all vaccinated of course there are many difficulties especially for those who are unemployed. ok well let's cross live now to sociologist paladin again eakins from the university miscellany very welcome thanks for coming on. yes it's a pleasure italy is facing another lock down here from your point of view as

a sociologist psychologically how tough is this for the country. while i was going to be a glasto at the gender was that before in delhi is a meeting with the quietest in the amassing weight and there is no cause initial now we are beyond you have been in several weeks back and when you look down we are learned bringer the entire economy which is already so much suffering on the brink of disaster on the verge of the abbotts because as you know you deleted the columns very much babies and children and you is reduced suffering a lot of them and when you look down which are all support police doing and going to plunge in the eye of the county you know tragedy rather you go to war then the laughter you know those are now and there are some especially mourning that were no more recent our suffering in. our not having an awful resources to keep the

things open my mouth we're reaching the point of the center of our welsh and our suffering for unger i mean they cannot remember and pain and solve and these are all accounts that we long into the hopper reaches countless in the wars in really a tragedy is a shame because our government is doing the same mistakes and with the previous government leaders who are war them one year we don't perceive any change and the lockers are on will probably really who feel entirely in a dire situation and this intuition is already in march so now i'm talking to you holmes more we agree on the new source why in the world it is all one in and all line of teaching good and the more on the close and godly the longer the gone and in the movie that's where i'm now more

a little nasa in 2000 people many of them are leaning on. jewett and when the lawyer with the lock down. and with all that we all now where they're going to suffer a lot of it we've begun ask for the 1000 on i just on that point how long do you think generally speaking i know it's a difficult question but how long do you think that people can last like this was a suggestion this lockdown mightn't be and might be until easter but potentially could go on like longer not very kind of would be going on. also in new york knew about the psychological act of not being able to teach in a classroom or acting or my my god you're gone i am a grown up girls and i think about my students their locker room and the oem they are up to the computer all the day long i don't think this way of teaching because of activism and going on for more than one year doth ecological the last

18 years i see my students in the state on the one who we are all the pressure on her i'm not a bit like ologies and you know my campers she talking with them that they are suffering a lot and they are gordon 200 doing. apart from the one in my department and the person next to our people clinging to the hope that a vaccine will be the solution while some people i mean bring to the er but we are vaccination is really going very slow a needle in the reason that i call the organisation that and people are confident they people have confidence that the angel wings are going there and the tragedy but we think time or before we tell you a question we impose that oh we've got a lot of witnesses some go. oh i don't know we've probably managed to move

in but i knew him we've had to. good news may be the last job you need not the way the agreement going on with major league giant companies that would use the you know what deal if we go back to normality of the dynamic economy we've got a problem a lot when you know it's in the what we call our income very different from german economy you know from french economy let alone from british economy we don't have any financial major one like london will nerve damage or enough of the excuse. the german but that the info you realize a lot of them do is not realize a lot 20 percent of the g.d.p. and realize a lot more we move the vehicle to one. of the last 2 terms of getting the unit he made 9 of them for the year 2021 and very much as

you call that we go back and g.d.p. on the underlying all across and then they say going to be yes it is a very difficult situation hi-lo i'm sorry to interrupt we do have to leave it there because we've run out of time but we really appreciate your insight or the sanctity race you have a sociologist palate bernadine a team to bridge university there in asli thanks for coming in thank you so much. that's been 10 years since the outbreak of war in syria hundreds of thousands of people have been killed in the conflict and millions of civilians have been displaced the country's economy is also being ruined and according to the u.n. half of syria's children don't know a life without war. and he can see what the war has done to syria this is the western city of homs it saw

some of the fiercest battles and in georgia 3 years see government forces did recapture it back in 2014 although the city is still undergoing reconstruction and young syrians have paid a heavy price for all of this almost half of those aged between $18.24 surveyed by the red cross have lost someone in the conflict with many suffering injuries themselves 2 out of 3 fled their homes and almost half lost their income most of the young syrians questions 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 down 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 for in syria and 6 here we're now entering the 11th year it is heartbreaking but we managed to adapt well throughout the conflict our correspondent more of ghastly f. has been covering the key events including from the frontline in this documented people's lives in the war torn country in a special anniversary report he looks back now at the defining moments and forwards to 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 but 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 right shifts. are you doing he asked. a lot of my dear. dad not 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 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 you 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 again in late today that 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 ms cells 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 rule of 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 stage press cues 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 no sort of 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 muster front it was very likely that every other white holik group in syria did have affiliation to 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 manufactured 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 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 the 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 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. intercepts. people to get back get back girls. 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 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 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 and 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 endlessly been in the headlines the president would

condemn what's happening the pundits would call for more boardrooms 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 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 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 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 suffered 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. join

me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. debate is is it fair for transforming our place to compete in women's categories and sports. as a society we have decided to categorize sports based on sex i definitely need to do not think that it's fair for athletes that when porn is pi logical males to compete in the women's category on the run. why do we have gender or do you have

gender categories in sports because we do treat men and women differently. every single soul beat athletes will we all have biological advantages over each other. are the thing you thought of me and i think friends are the subjects of the day there is a goal to do it. and develop confidence and belief in myself and i've learned the value of hard work and dedication i'm done to doubt. that these men say that they feel like a woman and they will not ever know what it's like to feel the loss of the baby her maybe biological free home of these that they will never do they really think this is fair. i just don't believe it.

i'm going to. hello and welcome to crossfire where all things are considered i'm peter lavelle using the media the biking ministration has made it clear it may launch cyber attacks on russia this is a colossal mistake we tell you why and who exactly is running the u.s. government is biden really in charge.