we dare to ask. for european countries i rush is to make the vaccine is the fund behind the jab reveals it signed for adoption deals with companies in italy spain france and germany although it is conditional on the e.u. approving the drug meanwhile the proper role of vaccine program is countries vent their fury over huge disparities in the way jobs are being shared thanks and after 10 years of the war in syria we look at how the conflict has changed the lives of its people and what the future holds for the country. oh good even just gone 6 o'clock here in moscow you're watching r.t.

international now more european countries have expressed an interest in working with russia with the 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 blocks medicines agency earlier high spoke with r.t. about this and how these cooperation agreements have developed. since the start of the pandemic the company that producing the spinning of 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 of the active 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 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 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's 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 a diplomatic win between russia and europe as well mari you has admitted to failures in its vaccine program with the vice president for its commission saying the block is struggling but for 5 member states 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 serving in their best interests more on the story his son. trapped in a never ending vaccine nightmare the bureaucrats in brussels must be thinking mon dieu promises unreality have so epically failed to much 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 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 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 $15.00 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 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 the 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 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 all for $1.00 and $1.00 for all a 3rd wave of cases forced italy into a new low with some of the country's hospitals overrun with patients schools restaurants shops i'm museums will be closed in the highest risk areas where the measures have been rushed through a move remain in place at least until the easter weekend at the beginning of april they'll hit every region of the country to some degree with the island of sardinia

the least affected many in this city and are preparing for a rough ride. i hope the lock down is only until easter who hope that it is not for the next 2 months because we're here to do all we're asking us how can we do erasmus if we can't leave home drop out of 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 a little damage was that it we're 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 and we also heard from a sociologist initially who believes the government has repeated the same mistakes throughout the pandemic he believes that dealing with. amassing a. good nation where we are beyond. in.

when you are. wearing a big diary come when you were before much. current government is doing the same mistakes. we no growth even and the market will or we are the only really in a dire situation but the nation is really really. only the. organisation and people are confident they people that the initial bring you are now and the passion. that has 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 has also been ruined and according to the un after syria's 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 did see some of the fiercest battles and enjoyed 3 years see a government forces to recapture it back in 2014 although the city is still undergoing reconstruction. young syrians have paid a heavy price too because 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 a most of the young syrians questioned is 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 our village and the schools were closed start was the last day open the book in town it 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 these humanitarian crisis in syria with robert madine he is the director general of the international committee of the red cross. well did you many current situation remains 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 hear and dark picture off 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 the challenge and the burden off rebuilding the country we have always had a very open and regular dialogue with the syrian offer disorder 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 this dialogue and also thanks to our very strong cooperation and partnership with the syrian arab red crescent on the ground. the conflict our correspondent has been covering the key events including from the front line and it's documented people's lives in the war torn country in a special anniversary reporting looks back at the defining moments and forward steam 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. one of my dear. 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 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 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 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 who need territory controlled by jihad this 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 are 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 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 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 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 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 sad 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 lib it wasn't the moderates who besieged aleppo and the rebels are pushing into aleppo again. they've regrouped according to community. into 7. people to get back get back go. 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 acid's 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 endlessly 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 warm all this 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 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 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 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 get bin 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 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 there seems to be little hope for syria there is no belief that tomorrow is going to be a better day. the are there with that special report on the course of the syrian war changed in september of 2015 around the time that islamic state which was at

the height of its power that's when the russian military put its weight behind the syrian government to help it drive the terror group out of the country now since then russia has become an integral part of the peace process helping broker and monitor last year's cease fire agreement as well as supplying humanitarian aid for the syrian people reporting now from syria. looks at russia's role in the country. let me i mean russian air base here in fear is northern province of what package takes up a relatively small piece of lens but it helped win the whole country back how i'll show you follow me. i. i.

was. takin my shit like that to go find our forces waiting for their defeats predicted it was a very important moment in russian abbey ation played a very important role might seem you would know the name changed was among the 1st pilots to come here back in 2015. 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 conflict. i. to give you an understanding of how intensive the 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. today there are still some problems. russian fighter jets can fly in any weather but sun and sun are not the best friends here thousands of miles away from home each of them has their own abode 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 will lose out on the air defense of this

beach is capable of withstanding any attack by any likely adversary. from a mean air base started was several tense in the middle of nowhere had its grew to a real town with streets and boulevards a church and a dream cafes and restaurants bakeries and beauty saloon it is a symbol hall for peace for syria and the reason a sense of real kong here. the base is unique in its location climatic conditions speed of deployments and the missions it carries out. 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 syria's civilian population. the latest here in that are in southwestern syria where the 1st anti-government protests erupted 10 years ago. it's going slowly but life is beginning to fill the streets of series cities once again.

the so what are known to have spent half of my life i war we've been through a lot we have become patient i feel old even though 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. the economic situation is there are difficult we cannot provide our children with the most basic necessities clubs not books for study i want things and see read the way they used to be. given 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 ups and galleries shut down and fear in the air that it could be.