thinks. we should ask. the headlines this hour an hour to the u.s. health department admits to pressuring brazil not to use russia's sputnik vaccine thing is increasing russian influence in the region. may get in the states including germany france spain italy suspending the actions and the capital. blood clots creating another headache for the blocs vaccination program and all this while the book struggles to contain the coronavirus way with many countries being forced into lockdown once again from battle royal factions but also become a canadian activist get his arm broken on the streets of 3 all while demonstrating giving puberty blockers to children we talked to him about the need to.

welcome just gone 3 o'clock here in moscow are you watching the international now the u.s. health department has said diplomatic ties to pressure brazil into not approving russia's sputnik the vaccine is that increasing russian influence in the region could threaten u.s. security revelation was made in an annual report by the health department so let's get more on this now from more ghastly every joins us again in the studio good afternoon. quite an admission this what was said in this report exactly well it's unclear why they would publish this anyone with a moral compass is going to be reading this with with very raised eyebrows but the rocking cherry on top of this. ugly affair is that this is the united states

department of health health and human services that is boasting that it is managed to deny potentially hundreds of millions of brazilians a vaccine. the office of global affairs used diplomatic relations in the americas region to mitigate efforts by states including cuba venezuela and russia who are working to increase their influence in the region to the detriment of u.s. safety and security examples include using the office of global affairs health a touchy office to persuade brazil to reject the russian copied 19 vaccine see brazilians vaccinating themselves with a russian vaccine apparently keeps u.s. officials awake at night this is they argue are threats to their safety and security are unclear how there's no reasoning no logic to it that is explained by them but let me put this in perspective for you so here they are boosting that

they've denied brazil sputnik the objective of one of the best vaccines in the world with the moon model the side effects brazil is a country that has been ravaged by covert so we all know the death certificate we hear every day from all over the world one in 5 deaths taking place right now all over the world is in brazil from covert suits of the situation is catastrophic it is desperate and here are these people who profess to care about people's health and well being arguing that denying brazilians are russian vaccine is beneficial is beneficial for both brazil and for the united states of america grand perversion of reasoning simple human decency to some would argue nevertheless the degree of double standards here is also astonishing because the united states is

wrong championed itself as as a crusader for vaccines and for vaccine vaccination efforts all around the world and they had previously accused russia of under undermining global vaccination. it is very clear that russia is up to its old tricks. and in doing so is potentially putting people at risk by spreading disinformation about vaccines. the difference is of course that back then they couldn't show you what it is that russia disinform anyone with in this case he he you go we have clear evidence their own admission that they had denied people the chance to get vaccinated with an available already in production vaccine especially in these times of global shortages ok so now we've

got the us critical of the russian vaccine for political reasons it seems but plenty of months before this we've seen plenty of criticism from western countries anyway about the russian banks only they they never made a secret that they were against they want to contain russia and russia reaching out to the rest the world and saving lives runs contrary to this you know new doctrine that they have of containing russia and then we all remember the unprecedented smear campaign that they launched again against sputnik last year was too quick russia couldn't possibly develop a vaccine before anyone else it was unsafe eventually they had to shut up because the data in the lancet medical journal of the studies prove that what the russians said was true that this was one of the safest vaccines with some the mild the side effects ok they accepted that but ever since then we've we've seen this effort to undermine sputnik to undermine any russian assistance to anyone which is especially

astounding given that when it was the united states when it was american lives that needed to be saved back when the pandemic 1st began when they accepted the help from russia aid from russia jets carrying ventilators to new york that was foreign that wasn't seen as a threat to national security but when it's brazilians choosing to get a job of sputnik that apparently keeps u.s. officials awake and not that's dangerous for america and you know lavrov predicted this last he predicted that there would be vaccine was taking place in 2021. some western states are trying not only to politicize the humanitarian aspect of the fight against corona virus but also to take advantage of the pandemic to punish governments they don't like you know all in all. an incredible story we've all heard about backdoor deals to secure vaccines in europe and the americas

this is the 1st time i think that we've heard about backdoor deals to deny people millions of people a vaccine. and they seem very happy to admit it's all for political reasons good to have you in thanks for the update there was artie's against the. i mean our serious concerns over the safety of the astra zeneca vaccine have prompted major players to temporarily stop using the anti k v jab they do include spain portugal germany france and italy and it does come after reports last week of blood clots and one death among those who receive the inauguration in denmark or europe correspondent peter oliver has the latest health officials and senior politicians from across europe said that the astra zeneca vaccine is going to be suspended in the country this is while an investigation is carried out to determine whether there's any link between those who have the vaccine and the development of blood clots. the

decision is a purely precautionary measure astra zeneca is used as a vaccine by millions of people in many countries around the world we're very aware of the significance of this decision and have not taken it lightly. 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 e.u. allows it the question on. the cases that have been flagged that are outside the normal are very infrequent but if importance this is why spain has joined other countries that have decided to make this temporary and precautionary suspension for the next 2 weeks we will wait for the european medicines agency these suspensions haven't just been happening in europe we've also seen them in central america in asia and in africa as well will be hoping to find out more information on where

this investigation into any potential link is going on thursday there's going to be a meeting then between the world health organization and the european medicines agency it was the a.m.a. that 1st gave astra zeneca its vaccine the green light for use in europe and they've been carrying out an investigation since last week when suggestions of a potential link between the the vaccine and blood clots 1st emerged astra zeneca themselves say that there's no evidence of an increased risk while the world health organization says that vaccination outweighs any potential risk that could be there but public perception of the vaccine is crucial to convincing people to well to take the vaccine in the 1st place we took the temperature of people here in germany and how they feel about the recent issues. and toys and he seems to be the right decision to pause it spurts maybe it's the 1st step to getting rid of astra zeneca completely it is disappointing i don't know what the reasons are if they're

justified or unjustified but they make this whole vaccination campaign so bureaucratic. now without it is not that easy but when there is so much criticism then it should be considered too when it's about new vaccines you all. always have to be very careful. yes but surely when it comes to vaccines you should be very cautious and if there is a slightest suspicion then it has to be stopped the e.u. vaccination program has moved to the glade seal pace and being beset by problems the e.u. commission vice president even admitted that there had been failures when it came to europe's vaccine rollout which is seen at lag behind many other countries including the united kingdom and the united states you know we're starting to see now patients have these tremendous reactions i mean sometimes people just get a little bit sick flu like symptoms now we're starting to see an aflac tick reaction like allergic reactions we see platelet problems and now we see even

deaths so maybe we need to take a step back and realize is this the right medication or back station for these 'd patients and we also need to ask the questions as physicians does every person need to be vaccinated and vaccines just create herd immunity there are a lot of people who maybe already had the virus like i'm pat and i have antibodies so why would i need a vaccine alessi you want to do is put the some of the rugs everything is fine because clearly it's not fine and we need to look at the numbers and the 21 gets a vaccination there's always risk to that always a we need to look at are these numbers an acceptable risk or at least number of exceptionally high risk that we should look at this vaccine in medicine we always see with what the new factors are and then we could let's take a step back is are we on the right track and then we negotiate. what is the 3rd coronavirus wife sweeps through europe some governments have been left with no other option but to tighten restrictions once again. snout how europe is preparing

for the worst. european countries were hoping that by this spring it would be the beginning of the year and for the coronavirus crisis there was a promise that a year of lockdowns and curfews would be sufficient in that we would be starting to return to normal instead of 3rd wave is rising as variants of the virus are once more forcing difficult decisions italy has taken a step back with most of the country returning to look down. on the beaches of scientific evidence the government has today adopted restrictive measures that we have judged to be appropriate and proportionate in germany that's a question that's also on people's lips too from the data we currently have and with the spread of the british mutation we would argue strongly for returning immediately to a lock down to avoid a strong 3rd wave here in front the english variant has become mainstream

accounting for more than 60 percent of all cases as infection rates the prime minister has described the situation as being on a razor edge in paris intensive care unit so overwhelmed with patients having to be transferred elsewhere in the country. is clearly on borrowed time as you know the english variant is now in the majority this variant is not only more contagious it is also more deadly our resuscitation capacities are such rated the head of the french national health agency who had repeatedly said that the curfew was working is now backtracking admitting it hasn't been enough less interesting week complexity the situation is complex stance and is worsening in the paris region vaccines are seen as being the only hope but instead the

rollout program has been more issues. the e.u. is still severely liking behind the u.k. for example so much so that the germans of evil admitted that they are a movie is the e.u. so handling of the vaccine program is also the only in the farming line cause a growing from block states for the body which a previous vaccines the a.m.a. to speed things up krista we would all be very happy if you would change your working i was in the european medical agency and the coming months to 24 hours a day and 7 days a week and not approve new vaccines in 3 months but in 3 weeks earned there is no surprise europeans feel lost and eager to vent their anger despite all of the restrictions.

the 3rd wave of the kovac crisis and more locked down isn't what everyone was expecting after a year that's already seen so many restrictions and losses and so much grief the idea that european countries could continuously now find themselves in the art 1 of lockdowns for some time to come is something that will certainly hit a nerve and test everyone's patience so let's even ski out see paris well earlier we spoke to an italian doctor who gave us his thoughts on another knock down in his country. well it seems that the introduction of a lockdown is part of

a wider strategy this is upsetting because we need to decide who is going into lockdown how and for how long a month ago we were told the infection rates were dropping and in early march there were talks about the possibility of theaters in gyms reopening and 2 weeks later everything changed it was again decided that the situation was bad so we are wandering in a fog that causes confusion drives people to despair especially restaurant owners and gym workers people who have invested a lot in their businesses but have suffered heavy losses and have not yet opened so all this is wasting time well any glimmer of hope for europe's workers could be extinguished too is the new restrictive measures come into force a new report has shed light on how last year's coronavirus lockdowns left europe's labor market wrangling almost $6000000.00 euro pains lost their jobs in the 1st 6 months of 2020 g to the pandemic according to a study by year a fanged those in low paid jobs have borne the brunt of the economic downturn and are significantly worse off even when compared to the 2008 financial crisis we

spoke to political commentator john brickwall about the problem. at this point the only solution is actually nation but the problem is. so the loss of judgments on this so that when i voted to go given the previous policies well the vaccination is very slow and out of the european union and then they are looked down to by a janie's a harsh and back scene even though some countries do like hungary as far as i know so we should as much exene as many vaccine as we and that the real crises slow in doing it is not efficient and for political reasons it's looking to use the harsh end of the chinese vaccine which is a mistake. that had treated me as a protest legislation adds fuel to ongoing and police demonstrations and i think kingdom what have a look at that story plus others to just up. the

world is driven by dreamers shaped by one person or their spread. their dares thinks. we dare to ask. the same wrong all along just don't call. me to call yet to shape out this thing to advocate and engagement equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart when you choose to look for common ground

. welcome back now a canadian activist has been attacked on the streets of montreal while demonstrating against giving p.v.t. blockers to children with gender identity yet she's filmy attack on his phone here several people approaching him demanding that he leaves the area and calling him a transfer pain was left with a broken arm they were after one of the attack is repeatedly hit him with the traffic told us more about what happened. what i do i just go out on the street i have conversations with people about if you were to blocking drug because the media if you report on what's going on out of nowhere from the road and i think from my

left on that i've walked about i don't know how many people 567. 1 woman the referee man they were just i mean i only had about one second notice the find me that every time one time children cannot keep that the cuban doctors it seems to me like 0100 percent it's a premeditated attack they knew i was there and they came to get me. well the drugs stop the onset of puberty by blocking certain hormones the effects to wear off when the child stops taking them however there are still concerns about the last thing impact puberty blockers to you have on minus. if a child goes on puberty blocking drugs from the age of 12 to 17 and then they come off them nicky hello can you hear me there is no magic time machine to get those 5 years that those years of development are gone and studies also that the end of print them 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 either transitioning and canada's going 100 miles an hour in the wrong direction because we have political people using that as a wedge issue to achieve their political and so they try to say that if we don't want to give puberty blocking drugs that somehow we're against the l.g.b. . but this has nothing to do with that there's no thinking involved in it they just oh you want to be the other gender ok here you go we're going to start puberty and you know. now the united states has kept its place as the world's top weapons exporter and has a market share roughly equal to that of the next 4 largest selling nations and that's according to a report by the stockholm international peace research institute now over the past 5 years the u.s. has accounted for over a 3rd of the world's arms exports almost twice that of russia which comes in 2nd life tough of all arms exports to get into the middle east and saudi arabia

accounting for around a quarter while the volume of exports hasn't increased i roll the us share of the market has grown earlier my colleague neil harvey discussed the findings with semen these women the senior researcher from the stock m. international peace research institute. so what the u.s. aims at many of the countries also use whip and export splice as a tool for foreign policy regions can actually grow as importers the middle east has grown very rapidly the edisto standing for a quarter of all total of all global. imports of beige weapons that it's a volatile region there are lots of tensions there actually conflicts going on and poor weapons into it doesn't make it safer if you don't have to make a difference to otherwise deal with the tensions at the conflicts didn't go shake solutions and if you are major supplier you can check your demands also policy

watch. anger is mounting in the u.k. over recent police conduct and plans to toughen the rules governing protests which themselves have led to demonstrations. hundreds took to the shrinks in london on monday to mourn sarah ever asked the 33 year old disappeared earlier this month and was later found dead a police officer has been charged with her murder on saturday the 2 forever art was dispersed by police for flying 100 k.b. prescriptions this led to arrests in clashes sparking a public outcry over the way officers handled the situation and i recently proposed a protest legislation is only added to the anger the bill being debated this week would give the police new powers to restrict protests it does allow officers to impose time and noise limits on all rallies not just marches as is the case at the

moment and includes the fence of intentionally or recklessly causing a public nuisance u.k. same secretary that was defended the police clamp down on protest your ring the pandemic. more than 125500 lives have been lost to this horrible virus it is for that reason that i'm continue to urge everyone for as long as these regulations are in place not to participate in large gatherings all attend protests . the right to protest is the cornerstone bottom ocracy but the governments do to the mainstream of more lives being lost in this pandemic former u.k. police officer peter kirkman extinction rebellion member donna chad mcafee gave us their thoughts on the proposed legislation. this bill is really an attack on the right to protest and the penalty that they're proposing after 10 years for peaceful disruptive protests isn't really shocking so if you're

a student protest you tuitions thieves i know there's a cut in your wages and what protest your department of health bill will work a broken railway line because you were fired and we heard this bill through congress you with up to 10 years in jail it's unprecedented there are restrictions on the right to hold for sessions on the right to hold assemblies are estatic events already under the $9096.00 public order exceptions $12.14 and what this new bill suggests doing is adding a couple of additional factors that will that would allow senior police officers. conditions to professions that assemble is. that twitter may be blocked in russia within a month russia's communications watchdog ross canards door has announced that the social network will no longer be available in the country if it refuses to delete

thousands of posts with illegal content circuit more details on this now in haiti our correspondent nick good afternoon nick a serious threat here from the russian watchdog just run through the dispute with twitter. while this doesn't completely come out of the blue because russia's communication regulator has made several requesting in fact 20000 requests 20 since the 2017 to twitter to remove harmful content and many of these requests have gone ignored now we're talking about the sort of content that would raise alarm bells in many countries including posts relating to self harm to suicide including hundreds relating to child pornography and drugs and of course these are very it is very alarming content which should. which should raise alarm bells in many countries including in the u.k. for example where a recent investigation by the internet watch foundation found that twitter was

responsible for startling amounts of all child pornography in fact $1400.00 instance out of $2800.00 may 1 in the us twit in january faced a federal lawsuit in california which again related to content and so she hated to child pornography now thus far twitter has declined to comment however it's been given a month by russia's watchdog to comply watchdog has previously said previously said that if twitter fails to comply it could face a very hefty fine we're talking one 5th of the annual revenue so the ball very much is in twitter's court ok thanks for the make you that was artie's mickey. just coming up the holocaust 3 months ago good to have a company went off the headlines and more stories about how.

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