the european medical agency rules astra zeneca is vaccine safe and effective just days after countries had suspended the job in fear of side effects p.m.a. however said it would continue to study possible links between the shots on the rare blood clotting disorder also ahead. just when i was a child and we had arguments in the playground we used to say bounces off me and sticks to you that's part of that nuance response to joe biden labeling him a killer in a recent t.v. interview we contrast the american president's words to his recent promise about them is back. in the u.k. should strike trade deals with countries even if they have a poor human rights record that's according to a recording of a speech given by the u.k.

foreign secretary. a warm welcome to our to international my names you know me old good to have your company. the european medicines agency has ruled that astra zeneca has corona virus vaccine is safe and effective well those certain side effects will continue to be proved countries including spain germany france and italy earlier suspended vaccination following reports of blood clots the developing and even fatalities among those who had received the job. we're joined live now by charlotte dubin ski in parys for more on this charlotte. was in there in the run up to the e.m.a.'s announcement please take us through it. yes that's right many people

wondering what the decision would be by the e m a we know it's now a new approval for the astra zeneca vaccine which is considered by the e m a to be safe and effective with the benefits outweigh the risks associated with it and saying in that press conference today that it's not associated with the overall risk of blood clots however they could not definitively rule out that they would be a link and so there will be further investigations this is what the director had to say after days of in-depth analysis of lab results clinical reports autopsy reports and further information from the clinical trials we still cannot. definitively link between these cases and the taxi there are also still some uncertainties we have seen some very rare case people it's describing specific unusual events of communication of this and trying to pin you know and bleeding so

we'll continue to gather more information on these conditions including additional studies and we'll keep them in the very close monitoring. so the investigations will continue to monitor whether or not there is any possible link to those blood clots from the moment they will be new warnings the information given out about the astra zeneca vaccine so that individuals can be aware of possible side effects that may be rare such as that and also more information given out to medical practitioners so that they can mitigate any problems the 1st sight of those problems arriving here she now is an issue of trust there was already mistrust here in europe over the astra zeneca vaccine and that is going to be something that's going to be difficult to get over countries such as france germany italy and spain all said that they would start using astra zeneca if it was given the green light once again we know waiting to hear decisions from those countries

with should be letting us know in the next hour or so but the trust a huge issue in today in paris it was still something on people's minds. i don't trust the spanx an adult i don't know if it's really true what they say with the media would no longer know what to think but i don't really have confidence in it and anyway i don't want to be vaccinated we don't have enough perspective it was quite quick so i think it's a little early in my opinion. the vaccine is brand new i mean we don't know the side effects those who died but i don't want to take the risk so i'm waiting a little longer. you know the know how they made it there is a nurse she died and then top of that there are people who died because of it so i don't really know if it really works or not. now this is a huge issue because astra zeneca are seen as being

a key component in trying to speed up the vaccination program here in europe a program that's already been painfully slow with only around 10 percent of adults receiving at least one job across the block this is problematic there are only 4 vaccines that have been approved for use by the e m a in the e.u. we know it's looking at other vaccines including the vaccine from russia and there is a sense that they need to be more. looking for these approvals we heard from the european commissioner for trade on wednesday that he thought he was a vaccine and now we're also hearing from german leaders regional leaders that they want to speed up this process because they see that this is a good vaccine to potentially increase that rollout here in europe this is what the austrian chancellor sébastien curt's had to say. concerning. other vaccines i strongly insist that the relevant issue. for safe vaccines as soon as possible

vaccines we have the better. the e.u. is now facing a wave of the couvade 19 pandemic and it seems that just after. that. virus was here on the european continent and european countries are still far from out of the woods when it comes to this issue. live in paris thanks very much for bringing us through all about. us responded to being labeled a killer by his american counterpart joe biden during a recent t.v. interview. because only. i would wish him good health i'm not joking i mean it secondly i want to say this in the history of every country there are many tragic and dramatic events but when we judge people or the nations we look into

a mirror we see ourselves we impose on others what we see in ourselves when i was a child and we had arguments in the playground we used to say bounces off me and sticks to you and it's not just the children saying the meaning is very deep. response to this bombshell remarks made by joe biden was highly anticipated and everyone's been here is swap the russian president would say to this and how it's going to affect the relationship between the 2 countries well for now it definitely seems that mr putin has chosen not to get deeper down and this war of words and undiplomatic statements but you know at the same time he lived everyone know that he is under no illusion about the nature of the u.s. policy towards russia. that you know that the united states government's wants to maintain such relations with us but only issues of interest to the united states itself and on that terms they think we just like them but with difference we have

a different genetic and cultural moral code but we know how to protect our interests yes we'll work with them but in areas that are of interest to us on terms of benefits and they will have to deal with it well this whole story is started when joe biden was asked if he considers vladimir putin a killer in an era view a few days ago when the reply was unprecedented even for russia and the u.s. with all their tough recent history so let's have a listen to the segment you know vladimir putin you think is a killer. or do so what price must he pay the price is going to pay well you'll see shortly well the harsh statements and the relationship between the 2 nations to a new low before that biden's administration announced a new wave of anti russian sanctions which included a blanket ban on important export of weapons and military technology to russia washington cited the alleged meddling in the presidential elections as one of their reasons only this time around we're talking about 2020 elections not 2016 and i

would say hard to mix it all up given this never ending stream of accusations leveled against russia in the recent years and russian ambassador by the way russian ambassador to the u.s. is now on his way back to moscow for consultations it's one of the diplomatic moves that russian side made to show does not take all that lightly and it will adjust its policy accordingly and according to the russian foreign ministry statement it's the u.s. to blame for bringing the relationship between the 2 countries in a quote dead end. the geo political analyst patrick henningsen on journalist neil clark both believe that u.s. diplomacy has reached an all time low. does think that president putin comes out of this whole exchange with tremendous credit he stay classy is the i mean when you look at what joe biden said you know you could argue this is projection set lee

because when you think of biden's record we talk about killers and we talk about deaths well he just about every walk of it so to hear this man use this kind of language that really is tells everything we need to know about the degradation of the office of the president the u.s. it is ironic this comes after donald trump these office we were told don't trump was the one who is bringing america into disrepute and yet we get biden coming in just a few weeks off because the president according to another world leader killa well really it is time so i think what's really gone badly wrong with western. well we took atlanta see a total lack of diplomacy in recent years just compare the 2 in this exchange and it really tells you all you need to know about you know the u.s. president the state of the white house right now in terms of foreign policy so this is the only thing that biden can do to i guess throw a solid to his base to throw a solid back to the media that really carried the russia gate narrative for for 5

years so it's sad but i'm not surprised that they're going to have to come to terms of the fact that this is a collapsed narrative they're addicted to this russia gave narrative and then there's nothing they don't have anything to go forward with in terms of diplomacy or really original thinking. sacrificing human rights something alter of trade that's what the u.k. foreign secretary has been accused of by campaigners after a leaked recording revealed he wants the u.k. to strike a deal with countries regardless of their human rights record. i believe we ought to be trading liberally around the world if we restrict it to countries with the european convention on human rights level standards of human rights we're not going to do many trade deals with the growth markets of the future with the foreign secretary dominic robb admitting that trading prospects actually could be done with the so-called enemies human rights groups and now hitting back accusing the government of gross hypocrisy this apparent willingness to sacrifice human rights

at the altar of trade is shocking but certainly unsurprising it fits a depression pattern on human rights from these government trade is obviously important to all nations but the foreign secretary shouldn't be thrown human right defenders to the wharf like this while the government has actually defended dominic rob's comment saying that this leaked order far was actually clipped and actually distorted the truth but we've also heard from the opposition party the labor party hitting out saying that dominic robb's comments behind closed doors actually completely undermined their public statements at the same time but it's not just dominic rob who has been accused long before of turning a blind eye to human rights abuses but saying something else publicly make good on that pledge bring into force the united kingdom's 1st thomas human rights sanctions regime which gives us the power to impose sanctions on the on those involved in the very worst human rights abuses right around the world so when it comes to the big

security and human rights challenges of our time we need this our united nations to forge a bold new multilateralism so when it comes to championing human rights across the world it seems like the united kingdom can talk the talk but can't quite walk the walk but this week it really does feel as though britain is going through some sort of existential identity crisis so now it's trying to reposition itself on the international world stage and reassert its global dominance but it seems like it will do that at any cost. of britain trade deals worth billions of puns with countries topping the list of human rights violators in the past 4 years sudden arabia carried out over 500 executions us capital punishment all in india in 2020 there are over 1300 deaths in judicial custody we spoke to the director of global justice now who said he wasn't surprised by dominic robb's comment the anything

that really surprises me about this is that people still think human rights plays any role whatsoever in terms of british trade policy it's only been a couple of weeks now since boris johnson's own backbenchers try to amend a piece of legislation to say. they want to prevent the british government doing trade deals with genocidal regimes and the government of closed it so there are backbenchers don't trust them not to do trade deals with countries that are committing genocide acts of genocide. and the british government said we don't want to have our hands tied so really british trade policy as it is it's human rights free zone and dominic rabs response to democracy apparently being in retreat around the world seems to be that democracy should also be in retreat in this country because the tape that he put out yesterday the integrated defense review had some absolutely chilling passages in including the fact that we're going to be increasing our new killer weapons stockpile by 40 percent and this is a deeply liberal government and you know i think that trade policy is clearly going

to play a role in future years in the promotion of british power and british transnational corporations around the world. local authorities along america's southern border are calling on the government to step in as the region faces a record influx of migrants the u.s. border patrol is struggling to provide cove and secure a shelter for thousands of people the mayor of the town in arizona told me the crisis is unprecedented. this is really opening up a pandora's box in our community we did not see the covert crisis nowhere near what some of the other cities have seen and we were hoping to keep it that way unfortunately it doesn't look with them dropping these migrants in our community untested all southern states including our his own alabama have borne the brunt of the migrant influx a recent polls suggest there is growing divide about the ability of the authorities

to cope with the situation in the us mexico border and the power to make the biden administration as the ploy the disaster agency fema to deal with the situation despite being beyond their remit chris riggs again believes the federal government wasn't prepared for such a surge in migrant numbers. there is definitely the concern of code and how that is going to impact my community i have a large number of seniors and elders. this could really affect so we're hoping that border patrol 'd will start testing before they release people were wanting to see what their health records are so that we can ensure our our citizens our project this is a crisis simple as you know i'm none of this on border patrol i put it strictly on the federal government as far as the current administration needs to step up and so

we're going to offer this they need to do their job they need to have a plan in place obviously there was no plan. russia is celebrating the 7th anniversary of the unification with crimea after months of political turmoil and civil unrest in ukraine a southern region and $24.00 dean voted by more than 1006 percent to break away and rejoin mainland russia are teens who need to tranquilize been finding out how the day is being marked. the biggest and loudest celebrations as usual were of course rocking the cities of crimea itself but here in moscow something special was happening at the biggest arena of the capital luzhniki where a lot of our putin gave a very emotional speech but the president didn't only congratulate crimean for a vast majority of locals there this day march 18th and 2014 was the happiest

day as most of them say in the years or decades the russian president also sent an emotional message to the whole of russia and to the rest of the world reminding everyone where the crimean peninsula belongs as he sees it the sure but as you have seen that sheet today is a very special day for the whole of a vast country vast that's the right word for russia remains the largest country in the world in terms of territory if you take a look at some map you see that crimea is just the dogs and yet we're talking about the restoration of historical fairness we're talking about the importance of this land to our country and our people. so most of the russian leaders speech was about the deep historic connections that date back 2 centuries ago the russian president also talked about the blood of russian and then soviet soldiers that was being

spilled so often as they were losing their lives to protect the peninsula from invaders now for many of the world especially the western world what happened 7 years ago and 24th thing is seen as something controversial or outright a lawful but i can tell you that the foreigners most of them who have visited crimea in 2014 most of them did change their mind after talking 'd to the law schools because what i always say the most important. thing for the understanding is speaking to the locals in the year 2014 ukraine was engulfed in violent protests led by ukrainian nationalists which ended up in a coup in kiev and as a result of this the peninsula which is mostly populated by ethnic russians decided that it doesn't want to be a part of ukraine any wonga which explains the result of the referendum that took

place in march more than 96 percent voting in favor of rejoining russia so ever since then march the 18th is being celebrated as the university of the reunification and like i said it's a very special day for crimea and the whole of russia indeed to the head of the anniversary artie's until he spoke to one of the most prominent figures or run the time in the area and tell you. we should be up 7 years have passed do you regret anything. not going to end the referendum no definitely know that ukrainians feel things are better in reality different things that the crimean referendum here's the date of the anniversary of the crimean referendum we're all happy because we defined as something of dollars we had one goal we were moving to where is this noble goal talk to me is me needed that and how did the mood change in

general i remember the joy with which crimea joined but was 7 years later do they know thinking crimea about this obviously some new understanding has come. no pride in the referendum but a desire 5 to establish a dialogue with ukraine but how are the rights of the crimean people affected no question of course they're affected because crimea is can't get some kind of fees or to go somewhere crimea are special people with a special status quo limited and dries the tie available to any other person live in either in mainland russia or in ukraine it means for the choice for they political views crimean still bear such restrictions. do people regret it. of course people are worried as people are waiting to begin to leave normally like everyone else because of the most but it's how can this happen and not get in the probably on no one it's not just moscow in kiev being listen to the results and

need to ask crimean stem cells like what happened here they say you have been annexed and we would say to the international community dear colleagues fellow citizens friends we're not and next we're stupid live band an intern to 14 those people who seized power in kiev forced us into holden and referendum we defended our lives and turned to a large amount putin and we were really hoping that he would not abandon us because they had already abandoned us in key if he didn't abandon us. with europe's vaccine rollout dogged by supply troubles some are looking further afield to get their job or getting creative a number of the tell you know entrepreneurs are aiming to launch vaccination tours to russia earlier this month firms in a number of e.u. countries and deals to produce russia's but not very covert job but they're all still waiting on the blocks regulator to approve the drug or to caught up with the

italian travel agent behind the vaccine tours idea. in the euro upright to now. campaign is going very slowly the people who have been basking in the old part of the population but you know. they need the aged bottle to pull commissions the 304050 years 'd that want to be vast in it back to maybe they have to wait 5 or 6 months we have a not that well gee stick to a program about these distribution and say see before they don't want to be basking in the sound bite of the population don't want to give us maybe we see a big fat man. but you've just. seen said grease my ass i want off the stuff to wear for a long talk for a quiz to keep this week the russian bar scene is so we started to speak with our

russian 5 to the east where possible in the near future. thousands of pensioners in moscow care homes have received the sputnik v. vaccine including among them a 104 year old veteran who got the job so she could safely get back to spending some quality time with her family. she has been living here for a long time hence she's a new 104 years old when the vaccination was and as she volunteered to get it she feels fine assured getting the shot which was done to allow her to see her relative safety she's very happy for.

104 and still going strong and that is are up for now but some more great programs are just about to get their start keep watching this see what's showing where you are today. problem. one of the worst mass shootings in america was. 2017 the tragedy is.

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i am . welcome to the alex salmond chill from scotland where we turn once again to the dominating issue of 50 now the 4 countries across united kingdom are performing well in the vaccine rollout and it does seem that the end of this nightmare is tantalizingly insight covered 19 has left the u.k. was more than 125000 dade one of the highest in the world and more per 1000000 of population than even brazil or the u.s.c. the u.k.

is also suffered one of the biggest economic impacts in terms of g.d.p. even if the continuing furlough schemes are disguise an impact on unemployment at least thus far however from a health perspective the virus is far from done with the population in terms of suffering today we examine the condition of long cord with 2 experts on the debilitating impact of the strait for disease danny altman is an immunologist and professor of immunology at imperial college london dr nationally mcdermott treated a bowl of patients in africa but is now a victim of the debilitation of long covert. today we ask even once a virus is held to be what are the long term impacts of the pandemic but 1st your tweets in as in messages in the sponsored by show last week fishing professor danny blanchflower of dartmouth college professor david blanchflower applauded the new biden and they should have to help the poor in the u.s. but also warned against any attempt by the u.k.

to return to austerity ray says enjoy the interview with danny blanchflower on biden's recovery package however was surprised the democrats feel they have to bring in their promise $15.00 minimum wage wasn't mentioned danny and self replied directly to that super missing well i wasn't asked to vote in a fair play he wasn't hopeful we get back on the show again soon to discuss that amongst many other issues of the economy in the us and in terms of the u.k. economic response to the pandemic professor plans for also trying to say it's on the chancellor and his plans for the future and have big said a billionaire chancellor has no understanding or empathy with people on the kind of income that nurses have wendy green gordon said well that's nice to know in terms of plans for ending austerity that's nice to know as i'm struggling to support my disabled son on my own disability since his was stopped along with my own which is returned at a lower rate and finally i has a brighter outlook from

a scottish perspective and says we can create proper economic recovery in scotland when we are no longer shackled to westminster control our resources develop our potential with a clean sheet and let's face it if we can develop a huge amount of nubile energy these sources in the oceans or in scotland it starts with what's needed in scotland stays in scotland just a year ago the long nightmare was gathering pace across the 4 countries of the u.k. but the vaccine has bore real hope but for so many the nightmare continues alex is in conversation with professor danny orman on this subject 1st of all what exactly is long called it so we've all been familiar with the idea that you get a cute young where your. you become restless and you expect to get better. 7 days or 10 days.