chile germany. spain. blood clot. it comes as the european union for their full. program with member countries venting their fury over huge disparities in the way. european countries. the. production companies spain france and germany the role is conditional on the e.u. approving the. change the people. of the future may hold with.

a round the clock across the world. from the team and if you don't know neal hello and welcome to the program. spain germany. italy all in the past 24 hours suspended the use of the corona virus vaccine developed by astra zeneca over blood clot concerns short of talk me through the story earlier. well spain has now become the latest country in the e.u. to say this is suspending the use of the astra zeneca vaccine decision came hot on the 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 and 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 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 batch 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 disquiet is being paid for the 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 d. may which is only approved vaccines be used witching q 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. meanwhile the e.u. has admitted to failures in its vaccine program with the vice president for its commission saying the bloc is struggling but for

a 6 member states it's worse than the they've 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 interest ortiz taylor 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 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 delays 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 block have the same complaint accusing brussels of not fairly

dividing up the facts even. 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 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 income 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 50 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 well more european countries have expressed an interest in using russia sputnik the vaccine according to the from behind the companies from italy spain france and germany have agreed to launch production if the vaccine is authorized by the block's medicines agency my colleagues under former and 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 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 v to be supplied to the european single markets once approval is granted but the european medicines agency we are actively working with

the e m a is part of the rolling review procedure in addition we and our partners are ready to start supplying those e.u. countries that independently authorized sputnik v. so we should emphasize again then here is the approval by the blocs medicines agency although not everybody seems to be ready to wait for that well that's right you're hungry and slovakia have already bought the russian shot with slovakia receiving its 1st shipments of the vaccine on monday 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 is a pill to the author a tease to greenlight the procurement of the for his citizens and the bavarian prime minister has also made similar appeals to the e.u. to starts considering opening itself to the possibility of using alternative vaccines be it the russian or the chinese now the e.u. has really struggled throughout this entire time there's been production glitches and. that's delayed the inoculation program has been highly criticized for that so

as the e.u. is faced with this colossal job of inoculating 450000000 people this really comes as a positive sign i mean 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 where a diplomatic win between russia and europe as well. you know activist has been attacked on the streets of montreal while demonstrating against giving puberty blockers to children with suppose a gender identity issues chris filmed the incident on his phone footage showed several people approaching him while he was talking to another man they started throwing punches he leaves the area mr olsen was called a troll. or not was told he was unwelcome in. one of the attackers also hit the activists several times with

a traffic code leaving him with broken arm. well joining us live now is the very activist chris ellison chris good to have you on the program firstly hope you're feeling ok i'm feeling that great broken bone and broken bones or no big deal all through take us through the confrontation then if you will. so what i do have to go out on the street i have conversations with people about the purity blocking. the media report on what's going on so if we can't. talk about what i consider to be a child abuse medical scandal i just take it right to the street and i'm educating parents and whoever else wants to talk to me i just hang out and people want to talk i'm there so i was just on the streets in montreal i did a little tour in ontario i went to university i went to ottawa i protested the front of parliament and then i went to montreal for the day and another man came to visit me and we were just out on the street having conversation when out of nowhere

from the road and i think from my left on the sidewalk about i don't know how many people 567 people one woman and the rest were men they were just on me i only had about one second notice bindoff me that i wear the dying one times as children cannot consent to puberty blockers and i have a body cam with me as well because i've been assaulted before so i used my protection but i clipped a body slam on the body cam onto the spine which they took and smashed so i took a few punches. and. we started to retreat because it was bedlam and i had the peace of mind to get out my phone to start filming them for they wanted to get pictures of them for the police and they kept trying to knock a bone out of my hand but i avoided that and so as we were retreating away a man picked up a really large traffic cone i wasn't too worried about it that it's just a traffic island but it probably weighs about 10 pound and it was one of the big

ones with a heavy bass yeah we were just looking we're just looking at actress right now. as you're describing me and you were left with a fractured broken arm. did you report the incident to the authorities and what was the reaction of so. i did and they're investigating but i sent them the video they looked at some of the camera footage from one of the businesses and they were going to go back the next day look at it more but they witnessed the entire assault but of course these people are all wearing masks and the men were all wearing hoods so it seems to me like a 100 percent it's a premeditated attack they knew i was there and they came to get me. and so hopefully we can identify them a private investigator beefed up me as well who specializes in identifying people so he's working on it but hopefully we can identify. do you accept that you may be provoking a reaction and people chris said times people who i suppose hold such views very dear and may have been dealing with trans rights issues for 40 years. are you cut

out of it but. if you're asking if i consider my actions provocative sure. no i don't i'm just there to have conversations. with people because what's happening is thousands of children are coming to medical harm and there is a crazy affecting especially young girls all over the western world thousands tens of thousands of children are now being told that there is such a thing as a boy brain or girl brain or a gendered soul and that they can just switch gender by taking puberty blocking drugs and then taking the opposite sex hormones and this isn't a case of traditional gender dysphoria where these children always felt this way this is what we call rapid onset gender dysphoria where maybe just last month this young girl is having struggles she's having difficulties with puberty there's almost always co-morbidities going on such as depression or anxiety

a lot of these kids that go to these gender clinics have autism but none of our. and the chronology of the doctor's bother looking into any of these other situation the policy is to affirm the child only and right away they're given the puberty blocking drugs in north america new problem in the drug. psych christine you've got a study last year by the u.s. centers for disease control and prevention concluding that puberty blockers can be potentially life saving drugs for trans teens and are reversible if it's not up to the people and their families to weigh up the pros and cons themselves most are small that's just a complete lie and these people talking drugs are not reversible because what happened i mean and to me that if a child goes on puberty blocking drugs from the age of $12.00 to $17.00 and then they come off them there's no magic time machine that gets those 5 years that those years of development are gone and studies all show that the end of criticism

doesn't even kick right into gear is going to come up and it takes time for the body to adjust and get going again so what's happening is we have all sorts of young adults now in their twenty's who are d. transitioning because they discovered that when they were feeling like they should be the other gender they were just confused maybe they wanted to be gender nonconforming but they were told that they're actually the other back and a lot of these children if they're just left alone to go through puberty studies show at least 4 to 5 times the gender dysphoria and a lot of these kids are just gay and lesbian ok we're actively converting young gay and lesbian people that are going to grow up to be gay or lesbian and we're telling them they're the other gender so this is actually conversion therapy on a massive scale ok it's somewhat nuanced conversation but we have to be able to have these. yeah chris we do we really do need to go to.

yeah it would be able to do it we do need a lot longer platform to talk it through but thank you very much for coming on the program and sharing what indeed happened to you on the street where you were attacked. by those some trans activist activist chris ellison speaking to us from candidate if thank you chris thank you so much. it's been 10 years since the outbreak of war in syria hundreds of thousands of people have been killed in the conflict and millions of civilians displaced the country's economy has also been ruined and according to the u.n. half of syria's children don't know life without war. of the decade long conflict our senior correspondent rutger's the of has been covering the key of fence including from the frontline documented people's lives in the war torn country in this special extended of 1st report now he looks back at

the defining moments and also for words to where the country had. 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. do you do it he asked. a lot of my dear. dad and dad not let alone are related.

we call it the syrian civil war but it never was for years syria has been bled dry by a war that was largely fed and fattened from abroad we know that now courtesy of hillary clinton's leaked diplomatic cables making the point repeatedly that the regime wants this to look like turn into sectarian violence and the very least that can be broadcast back into syria in various ways that will encourage protest as the united states we knew funded and ground 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 booth sod's 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 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 territory 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 u.n. panel what do 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 helmick group in syria did have a variation on us for 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 to manufacture cancer and then you say hey look chaos let's do something about it like the infamous duma a chemical attack of 2000. than 18 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 a 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 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 the lip or euphrates she was arius only one person was in damascus year after year i reported from syria and many of you may have followed the war but take my word for it until you see these with your own eyes you have no idea how bad things really are 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

has 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 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. but the moderates moderates are 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 as a commodity to be sold for profit when we learned that our units leader was selling arms to ice to 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 jihad this tie jack 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 became absurd 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 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 martha she had i counsel they could have treated it but western sanctions made getting the medicine impossible and the only hospital that specialized in cancer in aleppo 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're getting the oil it's a remarkable situation one of the world's richest countries all coupon in the oil fields 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 there seems to be little hope for syria there is no belief that tomorrow is going to be a better day.