so join us in the. headline stories from germany. spain. seen in the past 24 hours. the european union further floor. program with member countries venting their fury over huge disparities in the way. european countries. production deals with companies in spain france and germany. proving that. 10 years of war in syria

conflict has changed its people and the future may hold true. just a few moments into a brand new day here in moscow choose the march the 6th welcome to the new star on r.t. you know me. spain germany france italy in the past 24 hours suspended the use of the. team developed by astra zeneca over blood clot concerns. talk me through the story. well spain has now become the latest country in the e.u. to say this is spending the use of the astra zeneca vaccine decision came hot only heels of decisions made by france germany and italy on monday all saying they were holding the rollout over this particular vaccine now we know that the world health

organization is to hold a meeting to discuss the issues on tuesday and we've also heard that the european medicals agency this is the body which approves vaccines here in europe and had approved the astra zeneca vaccine is to hold an extraordinary meeting on thursday to discuss the issues now when france announced that it was suspending that vaccine that announcement was made by president marconi whose previously raised questions about the efficacy of the vaccine for older persons this is what he had to say. 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 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 off a day 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 law a political decision comes after 7 individuals are said to have had that issue in the country now the world health organization has said astra zeneca is safe the european medical's agency 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 a careful review all available safe to 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 like a vaccine that has already been my problems and described as being painfully slow there's also been new tit for tat between astra zeneca and the e.u. over the fact that the company couldn't supply the contract in demands from the e.u. as promised the key may which is only approved vaccines be used which include just presented 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. well the e.u. has admitted to feel yours in its vaccine program with the vice president for its

commission saying the block is struggling but for 6 member states it's worse than that they've written a letter venting their anger at what they call huge disparities in the way vaccines are being shared out raising dollars it's 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 unreality 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 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 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 cells whilst your brothers and sisters go hungry according to this uneven system multo would get more fight scenes them 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 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 a one on one for a role or more european countries have expressed an interest in using russia's ve seen according to the. companies from italy spain france and germany are great to launch production if the folksiness or theorised by the blocks medicines agency my colleagues under former nichiren spoke about the developments earlier. 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 affective 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 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 there were 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 or dorothy's to greenlight the procurement of 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 still a huge the inoculation program has been highly criticized for that so as the e.u. is faced with this colossal job of a 450000000 people this really comes as a positive sign i mean this is quite a turnaround if they give the go ahead to the russian vaccine that could speed up the fight against the pandemic that it's also a diplomatic win between russia and europe as well. this is our future national after the break it's been a full decade since the outbreak of war in syria but the country still blighted by the double woes of both humanitarian and economic crises we predict that story don't few about ninety-second.

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14 minutes past the hour welcome back it's been 10 years since the outbreak of war in syria hundreds of thousands of people have been killed in the conflict millions more civilians displaced the country's economy has been ruined and according to the u.n. half of syria's children don't know life without war. here you can see what the war has done to syria this is the western city of homs that saw some of the fiercest battles under 3 years siege government forces recaptured it in 2014 with the city currently undergoing reconstruction and it is young syrians who really have paid a heavy price 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 surveyed are still struggling to have their basic needs met such as having food to eat here some 1st hand accounts we put together from people who are forced to leave their homes. i was a 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 that was the last day i opened 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. 10 years have passed since the crisis 4

in syria and 6 here we're now entering the 11th year it is heartbreaking but we managed to adept. through a decade long conflict our senior correspondent has been covering the events there including from the frontline has documented people's lives in the war torn country in this special reports he looks back at the defining moments and forwards to where the country 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 boys 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. do you do it he

asked. one of my dear go. back and read a little on aren't related. we call it the syrian civil war but it never was for years syria has been bled dry by a war that was largely fed and fattened from abroad we know that now courtesy of hillary clinton's leaked diplomatic cables making the point repeatedly that the regime wants this to look like turn into sectarian violence and the very least that can be broadcast back into syria in various ways that will encourage protest as the united states we knew funded and drown propaganda campaigns against assad millions

and millions of dollars since bush was in office they got what they wanted the 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 helmets 1st on the scene a rebel propaganda and rescue group funded by the same people who put guns and missiles in militants have just so we're clear whose side the white helmets well on they operate territory controlled by geodes so the kurds for example wouldn't let them anywhere near their towns with the syrian government 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

staged rescues theft 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 hour for the ation to muster 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 any 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 occurred in the hospital older white helmets activists and people i spoke to are either in the lip or euphrates shield areas only one person was in damascus year after year i reported from syria and many of you may have followed the war but take my word for it until you see vece with your own eyes you have no idea how bad

things really are entire district cities demolished you'll find views like this in aleppo in here in homs in damascus and the question isn't where did you start it's what do you start with they said it would be the good guys who'd fight as had the freedom fighters but it wasn't it wasn't the democrats it wasn't the liberals it wasn't the freedom fighters it was the radicals the extremists the jihad that's who rose to power and more moderate opposition that was was crushed and 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. intercept. people to get back get back girls. with the moderates moderates less ideologically and religiously inclined. more commercially minded and tripper nerds who saw the shiny guns that were being handed out by the pentagon lot as a tool to fight oppression but is a commodity to be sold for profit when we learned that our unit's leader was selling arms to isolate terrorists we reported it to the u.s. head of the base but after a report no measures were taken americans only ramped up the support for him it was

never a secret that jarvis hijacked the revolution in syria what it was was an open secret everyone knew about it but you just didn't say it out loud otherwise you would legitimize acids claim that he was fighting monsters terrorists quickly became upset a spectacle in a blood soaked circus 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 headlines the president would condemn what's happening the pundits would call for more boardrooms the common sanctions would be filled with war more than 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 on c.n.n. or b.b.c. this is 3 year old motha she had high council they could have treated it but western sanctions made getting the medicine impossible and the only hospital that specialized in cancer in aleppo in the hospital was taken by rebels and destroyed in fighting they had to amputate her but she's fine now she lives many other

kids. almost over children who died of cancer have done so because of european sanctions we asked the european union and humanitarian agencies to lift the sanctions and let cancer manson in because children are suffering for all his many many sins former president donald trump had one thing going for him he would sometimes tell the truth uncharacteristic of presidents yes but with trump it was it was shameless the hell with international rules customs or even simple decency or oil. and that is what america is in syria for we're keeping the 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 suffering 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 no belief that tomorrow is going to be a better day. using

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