france. germany. the european union admits further flaws in its program with member countries venting their fury. in the program more european countries. reveals its production deals with companies in spain germany. is conditional on the e.u. approving the drug. 10 years of war in syria. conflict changed. the future. for the country.

just after 8 in the evening here in moscow this monday marks the 15th. and your welcome to our. germany. italy become the latest countries to suspend the use of the corona virus vaccine developed by a stretch over blood clot concerns. for more on this. list of countries suspending the astra zeneca job keeps growing take us through why that's happening. well i just want to bring you up to date with some breaking news on this story that european medical's agency which is the agency

which approves the vaccine which approved just resent it has said that it will be holding an emergency meeting on thursday to discuss the issues with this vaccine that have caused so many european countries to suspend its use as you mentioned there france and germany and italy have become the latest countries to say that they will hold the rollout of this particular job over those concerns now present my corn who has previously raised queries about the efficacy of the astra zeneca vaccine for older people maybe the announcement. on the. decision which was also taken in accordance with our european policy is to suspend vaccinations with astra zeneca as a precaution hoping to resume it quickly if the opinion of the a.m.a. allows it so we are suspending its use from tomorrow afternoon. well they came fast in the footsteps of decisions had already been taken by island the netherlands

denmark so what's the problem well originally this issue of a safety was raised after a death in denmark but since then there have also been questions raised over whether or not astra zeneca makes the people who have the job have blood clotting issues in germany they say that this is a professional not a political decision and comes after 7 individuals are said to have had that issue there in the country now there's also been other concerns for example it's a merge today in the south of france a fire fighting area had decided that it would suspend using the astra zeneca vaccine this was before france took that decision after they had an adverse effect in one of their firefighters only had one job astra zeneca that firefighter apparently displayed cardiac arrhythmia and had to be hospitalized as a result and so they decided to take that extreme precaution to not give the astra

zeneca any more now the world health organization has said astra zeneca is safe the european medicals agency which is holding that extraordinary meeting on thursday has also said it stands by it and says that the effects outweigh the benefits of this particular vaccine and of course those who created astra zeneca are also standing by it. careful review all available safety data of more than 17000000 people vaccinated in the u.k. with covered 19 vaccine astra zeneca has shown no evidence of an increased risk of palmer and believes deep vein thrombosis or thrombocytopenia in any defined age group gender or in any particular country. well this is of course a huge blow to astra zeneca but it's also a huge blow to the european union's vaccine vaccine that has already been my

problems and disquiet is being painfully slow there's also new tit for tat between astra zeneca and the e.u. over the fact that the company couldn't supply the contract it demands from the e.u. as promised the d. may which is only approved vaccines be used which include astra zeneca in the e.u. is also coming under fire for not approving vaccines quicker and the rollout as it is painfully slow we're talking around 10 percent of adults across the european union that have received one job let's compare that to the u.k. where almost 40 percent of adults have received one job and of course this is not going to bode well for those who have been raising questions and showing vaccine skepticism particularly here in france where we know that is so high many people say this is essentially showing us that we have been treated like guinea pigs all of these issues now will be boiling down and people

a year on from when the quarantines the lockdowns all started must feel as if europe is taking one step forward and 3 steps back i think you're going through all of the charlotte toobin in paris well just charlotte was taking us through another aspect the e.u. has admitted to feel years and it's vaccine program with the vice president for its commission saying that block is quote struggling but for a 5 member states it's worse than the current they've written a new letter venting their anger at what they call huge disparities in the way facts scenes are being shared out raising doubts about whether the union is serving in their best interests. or has more. trapped in a never ending vaccine nightmare the bureaucrats in brussels must be thinking mon dieu promises on reality have so epically failed to map top of the european bloc that they've been left with no option but to apologize it is true that mistakes

were made when ordering the vaccines in brussels as well as in the member states the main issue has been delivery to laze of the astra zeneca job the initial deal of 18000000 doses was slashed to just 31000000 with the recent warning promising another months long hold up all this leaves the e.u. as target of 70 percent of adults vaccinated by late summer looking like a pipe dream but it's not just getting vaccines off the production line that's the problem no it seems the problem is far closer to home because despite all its pledges to defeat covert 1000 with coordinated responses and united fronts some feel the e.u. is not living up to its core values as a tight knit family there are clues that point to so-called bazaars where additional agreements between member states and pharmaceutical companies remain what kind of bazaars well the allston 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 facts seen so far unclaimed by others and he's not the only 15 e.u. countries that's almost a 5th of the entire block 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 you'll self 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 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 the working 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 a 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 greed to 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

a one on one for role. more european countries they expressed an interest in using russia's sputnik vivah seen according to the russian from behind the jump companies from italy spain france and germany have agreed to launch production if the vaccine is authorized by the blocs medicines agency my colleagues under former nichiren spoke earlier about how these cooperation agreements have been playing. 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 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 have 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 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 hungry 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 that could speed up the fight against the pandemic it's also a diplomatic win between russia and europe as well a 3rd wave of covert cases has forced italy into

a new law and with some of the countries hospitals really overrun with patients schools restaurants shops museums they'll all be closed in the highest risk areas the measures have been rushed through and will remain in place least until easter weekend the beginning of april we'll touch on every region of the country to some degree with the island of sardinia the least the fact that many in italy are preparing for a referendum but i hope the looked on his own learn to easter who hold it is not for the next 2 months because really here to do all we're asking us how can we do iraq's most if we can't leave home without them i mean 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. that if 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. when we heard from

a sociologist in italy who believes the government has repeated the same mistakes throughout the pandemic. indonesia is dealing with the quiet was it in the amassing way and those local the initial now we are beyond in several weeks back and then you will not die we will learn bringer the entire economy which is already so much suffering on the brink of disaster because our government. doing the same mistakes that the previous gone and you were one of them one you know we don't go in and the lock down we thought we really who believe in the dire situation that the nation is really going very slow way in the valley that we've done that call the organisation on that and people are confident they are people of color that the angel wings are clear now and.

it's been 10 years since the eye print of war in syria hundreds of fires of people have been killed in the conflict and millions of civilians displaced the country's economy has also been ruined and according to the un half of serious children don't know life without war. the or. and here you can see what the war has dome to syria this is the western city of homs it saw some of the fiercest battles and enjoyed a 3 year siege government forces recaptured it in 2014 with the city currently undergoing reconstruction. well throughout the decade long conflict our senior correspondent moroccan steve has been covering the key events including from the

frontline documented people's lives in the war torn country in this special anniversary report he looks back at the defining moments and forwards to where it may be heading 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 the 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. but i have no idea. that you did not get along on.

me. we call it the syrian civil war but it never was for a year is syria has been bled dry by a war that was largely fed and found 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 know funded and drought and 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 that 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 both sides the government and the rebels blamed each other and then again and again and again

and later 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 hands 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 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 that and when the cameras are off a little fighting on the side. they told me that while they were not affiliated to us for a 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 us for a 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 of 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 won the battle for no reason that makes sense shock horror at the great reason to let loose dozens of cruise missiles at syria except you know bad production. we were in the basement my mother told me that we

had run out of food and wouldn't have anything to eat until tomorrow i heard noise outside somebody was shouting that we had to go to the hospital so we were there when i came in some people grabbed me and started pouring water of my hand. after almost 6 months of investigations i can prove without a doubt that the duma hospital scene was staged no fatalities occurred in the hospital older white helmets activists and people i spoke to are either in need live or euphrates she would 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 had the freedom fighters but it wasn't it wasn't the democrats it wasn't the liberals it wasn't the freedom fighters it was the radicals the extremists the jihad ists who rose to power and more moderate opposition that was was crushed and catabolic. riginal of the argument was we don't know them very well when we got to know them but it was they don't have very good backgrounds i was there it wasn't the moderates who took it 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 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 warm all this 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 saw on c.n.n. or b.b.c. this is 3 year old what she had i counsel they could have treated it but western sanctions made getting the medicine impossible and the only hospital that specialized in cancer in 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. 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. america is there's a history fema has been tasked with taking care of all accompanied child migrants out its southern border the organization usually deals with major emergencies a natural disasters but a surge in recent months will see it receive and shelter the children holding

facilities by d.v. 500 youngsters are now living in shelters for migrants thousands more they're stuck in overcrowded border patrol stations many of them have been placed in prison cells designed for adults have been held for longer than the maximum 3 day limit about 500 children reportedly arrive every day well since becoming president joe biden has been reversing some of donald trump's immigration policies he's ended construction of the border wall ordered the reunification of migrant children with their families and voiced his support for easing citizenship requirements for migrants several republicans however have blamed the new administration for the current crisis saying it simply on previous policies without considering the ramifications the house speaker nancy pelosi sees the problem purely team trumps legacy what the administration has inherited is a broken system at the border and they are working to correct that in the

children's interest. let's cross live now to jeff charles jeff's a political commentator speaking to us from texas one of those frontline states good to have you on the program the disaster agency jeff is stepping in how close to a humanitarian crisis are things on the border. and thank you for having me on here with you and you know the fact that they're bringing in theme i just underscores the fact that the biden administration has been lying about this situation from the get go they keep trying to do it in pretending like it's not a migrant crisis but it's not an upcoming humanitarian crisis it's already a crisis and despite with house speaker nancy pelosi says this is not trump's making this is this is squarely at the feet of president joe biden who seemed surprisingly didn't anticipate that this would happen why have so many children and other migrants being heading there in a. well i mean they're telling us themselves i mean if you look at the t.

shirts they're wearing they say biden let us in you've got the press interviewing these folks and they're telling the press biden promised us that he would lead us in that he would give us a place in the in the united states of america all throughout the campaign biden was talking about how he was going to ease immigration restrictions how he was going to reverse the policies of the trumpet ministration and make it easier for people to come here legally and illegally so it can be no wonder that that they are coming here and that biden did cause this with his rhetoric and with his campaign team putting that out there i mean he has such an aggressive open borders immigration agenda it be shocking if they didn't come in come in in greater numbers is speaking of the media donald trump was on slum for the conditions in which the migrant children were held now you've got the biden ministration essentially escaping the fate why the different approach well it's because nobody ever cared about the issue in the 1st place right i mean they they slammed the trumpet men.