so join us in the depths. for a major in the shallows. headlines this hour more european countries i rush is the vaccine is the fund behind the jab reveals it signed production things with companies in italy spain france and germany although it is conditional on the view approving the drug free market profits for all its vaccine programs countries bend their fury over huge disparities in the way jobs have been shed and after 10 years of poor syria we look at how the conflict has changed the lives of its people and what the future holds for the country. good evening just on 7 o'clock in moscow you're watching r.t.

international now more countries have expressed an interest in working with russia's sputnik for 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 block's medicines agency earlier i spoke to artie's mccarron about how these cooperation agreements have developed. 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 of the active so what we're seeing now is quite

a remarkable change of tack with the company revealing its brokered 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 market 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'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 that it's also where a diplomatic win between russia and europe as well while germany france and italy have become the latest countries to suspend the use of astra zeneca as vaccine i made health concerns it comes at a particularly bad time for the midst of failures in its inoculation program with

the vice president for his commission saying the block is struggling where 5 member states have written a letter venting their anger at what they call huge disparities in the way vaccines are being shared out with more on the story his. 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 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 vaccine 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 the bald area which has a population almost 14 times a launch 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 want to have a vote it might be time for brussels to rethink its strategy and revive the good old idea of all for one and one for all but a 3rd wave of cases forces really into a new long time with some of the country's hospitals overrun with patients schools restaurants shops museums when i will be closed in the highest risk areas the measures have been rushed through and will remain in place at least until the easter weekend the beginning of april that hit every region of the country to some

degree with the island of sardinia the least affected many of the 3 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 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 that it 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. what we heard from a sociologist in italy he believes that the government has repeated the same mistakes throughout the pandemic he believes dealing with quite. a massive way. the nation where we are beyond. in. america

when you. bring a big tyrant probably lower before much. current government. doing the same mistakes. we know both the in and the market will or we are the. only in a dire situation but the nation is really really. only the. organisation and people are competent people but the initial ringler now and the. now it's been 10 years since the outbreak of war when syria hundreds of thousands of people have been killed in the conflict to millions of civilians have been displaced the country's economy has

also been ruined and according to the un half a series children don't know life without war. well here you can see what the war has done to syria this is the city of homs it's or some of the fiercest battles in jodhaa 3 years see government forces recaptured it back in 2014 although the city is still undergoing reconstruction well young syrians have paid a heavy price today because almost half of those aged between $18.24 questioned by the red cross cross have lost someone in the conflict with many suffering injuries themselves 2 out of 3 fled their homes and almost half of lost their income most of the young syrians question 2 are still struggling to meet basic needs such as food well here are some firsthand 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 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. ok let's bring in max blumenthal now he's an investigative journalist and editor of the gray zone website and thanks for your time tonight max the u.n. still describes syria as a tinderbox what are the hopes of long lasting peace in syria because it's such

a complicated situation. well we've seen the conflict move through several phases and looking back over the last 10 years it appears pretty clear that this should have never happened would have never happened without the intense desire for regime change and the arm and equip program the cia instrumental eyes known as timber sycamore which saw billions of dollars of weapons flooding the syrian landscape and destroying the country driving or destroying parts of the country and driving the refugee crisis and now after several phases in which the u.s. was denying its role and in washington where i sit right now there is this narrative about the u.s. failing to act it's become clear that the u.s. has always been there and the u.s. now through its military and through the so-called syrian democratic forces that occupy northeastern syria is preventing wheat from reaching the syrian people

causing a food crisis according to the world food organization and the seas are sanctions that is imposed or preventing medicine and basic goods from reaching the syrian people and so many of those in washington who claim to care about the syrian people have nothing to say about this and so the syrian people have essentially been denied the peace after a decade of war internationally what what can be done more institutions of that to try and solve this crisis because we're talking about a now you mention the u.s. that we're talking about a country whether a 5 different foreign militaries at the moment all with competing interests. right well as i mentioned there were several phases of the war and the syrian government the syrian state itself managed to maintain its integrity by calling on its alliances its allies to prevent the direct military intervention that turned for

example libya into a failed state but now we're in the stage of economic war hybrid war led by the united states and israel is attacking constantly all around damascus in the name of countering iran and so the battle returns to washington in my view congress has imposed these crushing sezer sanctions and they're having a destabilizing effect throughout the region they are weakening jordan which is a major trading partner of syria the united arab emirates wants to trade with syria syria is unable to return to the arab league and so the entire region has been turned upside down by this economic war and it's really up to the united states and its allies to decide if they want to continue destabilizing an entire region strategically speaking. why syria so important to all these competing countries that are trying their best to defend one side or the other. it all goes

back to the wolfowitz doctrine this pentagon paper after the end of the cold war in which the us declared that it had the intention to impose total hedge a mony on the world and to stamp out any independent country and he socialist country that was not within the us fear of influence and so we saw iraq libya yugoslavia be destroyed by regime change wars but syria managed to hold on and continues to hold on as one of the last remaining independent arab states and one that actually is one of the few left that refuses to recognize israel and so it remains in the crosshairs of the empire and sadly amongst all of this thing the human cost always seems to get forgotten. yes and that story in the context of the human cost is not relayed to americans and i can even remember a time when i was a little bit confused what we're told is that this blood thirsty dictator sitting

in damascus maybe petting a cat like a cartoon villain enjoys bombing his own people and turning them to refugees but we're not for this war we're not for arming these extremist militias are our job at all nostra then there would not have been this refugee crisis and as a peer reviewed study by northeastern university showed one of the few studies that interviewed a wide range of refugees across europe about 50 percent of those refugees fled because they were afraid of the armed opposition from isis to the so-called moderate rebels and now we see the human toll in terms of sanctions starving children doctors forced to smuggle medical supplies in to keep hospitals running across syria where is the concern for the syrian people that was there at the head ahead of every potential bombing campaign in the united states where is it it's certainly still

a shocking situation maxwell even really good to speak he tonight it was my experimental investigative journalist and editor of the grays that own website thanks for coming on thanks a lot. well throughout the conflict al correspondent not against death has been covering the key events including from the front lines documented people's lives in the war torn country in this special anniversary report he looks back at the defining moments from forwards to you 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 and someone's hands and call them right shifts. are you doing he

asked. a lot 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 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 and women children lying in rows killed by poison gas.

yes the gas one of the absolute lose of the war hundreds died in the biggest such attack in damascus suburbs in 2013 broussard's the government and the rebels blamed each other and then again and again and again in later days it was almost always the white helmet 1st on the c 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 dera tory controlled by joggers so the kurds for example wouldn't let them anywhere near their towns or 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 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 no sort of front complex the news for front headquarters where directly next door to the white house center that i visited they told while they had an era for us for a front it was very likely that every other white helmet group in syria did have a variation in us for front were led by a nurse or a front militants and any other situation this would be a scam a racket if you are a bunch of thugs to manufacture cancer and then you say hey look chaos let's do something about it i think the infamous doom a chemical attack of 2000. and a teen when they accused asaad of dropping gas on a random house after he'd won the battle for no reason that makes sense so

hora and 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 went there when i can mean some people grabbed me and started pouring water over 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 wall but take my word for it until you see vece with your own eyes you have no idea how bad

things really are entire district cities demolished you'll find views like this in aleppo in their eyes here in homs in damascus and the question isn't where did you start it's what do you start with they said it would be the good guys who'd fight as had the freedom fighters but it wasn't it wasn't the democrats it wasn't the liberals it wasn't the freedom fighters it was the radicals the extremists the jihad that's who rose to power and more moderate opposition that was was crushed and catabolic. original of the argument was we don't know them very well when we got to know them but it was they don't have very good backgrounds i was there it wasn't the moderates who took it lib 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 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 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 and literally been in the headlights the president would condemn what's happening the pundits would call for more borns the common sections would be filled with war moments calling for blood here's a test

a basic test they do know that selling american or european medicine to syria to this day could land you in jail ass these are called sanctions and they were strict almost all trade with syria i once reported from a cancer center for kids in aleppo and who are out me well little kids dying from perfectly treatable forms of cads or just because it's illegal c. 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 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. 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 in 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 little hope for syria there is a new belief that tomorrow is going to be a better day. i'm

action or to answer we're going underground for another lockdown edition after u.s. president joe biden's 1.9 trillion dollar code relief bill was held by centrist democrats is a big coronavirus achievement in the country with the worst death toll in the world arguably one multibillion dollar business that has weathered coronavirus well has been drugs and will speak to rolling stones matt taibbi about his new book the 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 line 3 project in minnesota let's go straight to philadelphia to speak to the sunrise movements john paul mahela thanks so much a.p. for coming on one of the earth is is going on i thought everyone loved joe biden for.