the benefits far outweigh the risks that's the ruling of the european medicines agency on the astra zeneca call that vaccine days after countries had suspended it made blood clot fear also ahead. of use to me when i was a child and we had arguments in the court you know we were saying fences off me and sticks to you lot of me or putin responds to joe biden branding him a killer in a recent t.v. interview we contrast the american president's words to his recent promise that diplomacy is back. democrat run u.s. house of representatives rules to hand 2 and a half a 1000000 undocumented migrants the chance to get citizenship under a new dreamers bill.

all over the world every hour of the day this is our t. international bringing you your top news stories on donald quarter welcome to the program. the european medicines agency has ruled that astra zeneca corona virus vaccine is safe and effective it comes after a number of countries suspended its use over concerns about blood clots and even something tallies among those who had received the shot. well almost a clean bill of health care from boeing the european medicines agency to astra zeneca what she deemed to be safe and effective for the use against. teens saying that once again the benefits outweigh the risks in news in retrospect seeing the records to her blood clots which is what they were investigating they said that there was no so we see overall with an increased number of blood clots but they

said that they could defend itself we rule this out and as such astra zeneca will now come with a warning for those who have the job that this could be one of the side effects who are from asian also given to health care professionals who got this job to make sure that they could mitigate any impacts if they see them this is what the e m a had to say after days of in-depth analysis of lab. reports reports and further information from the clinical trials we still cannot. definitively link between these cases and the taxi. suit and we have seen some very rare case people describing specific and usual. and. so we'll continue to get information these conditions including additional studies and we'll keep them very close. well that decision by

the mayor was enough for more than a handful of european countries to say that they will restart the vaccination program we astra zeneca with the french prime minister going on television on thursday evening saying that he will have the vaccine on friday to show that he trusts in that trust is the big issue the astra zeneca now faces the already query's about its efficacy for own the persons at the present michael discussed that several weeks ago and here in paris. there is still a lot of trust and. 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 it would be 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. mr you never know how they made it there is a nurse she died in and took of the people who died because of it so i don't really know if it really works or not however that clean bill of health wasn't enough for some countries sweden has said that it is going to take a few days to absorb what i may said and make their own investigations and that comes off the death of a woman who is said to be in perfectly good health. the having the vaccination so still some questions remaining now astra zeneca is seen as being a pillar for the. role like this vaccine that same program at a faster rate has been painfully slow so far and there are calls now made to look

at approving vaccines or a faster level particularly cool was coming from regional leaders in germany for the a.m.a. to look at this very vaccine from russia we heard from the european commissioner for internal trade a wednesday saying that he thought it was a good vaccine that cool was also echoed by the austrian chancellor sebastian kurtz concerning sputnik vi and other vaccines i strongly insist that the relevant e.u. bodies issue now with rice asian food safe vaccines as soon as possible the more vaccines we have the better well. any countries are now facing a wave of. sr now such they run putting up restrictions once again we put on thursday evening that france will now put 16 departments into a 4 week lockdown that includes that of the region in paris so really there is a huge problem still at the moment as the european union really tries and is struggling to get that vaccine up to speed on from when the pandemic hit tel shores

and it seems as if they are still so full from being out of the woods. earlier we spoke with political analyst nicholas markovitch on whether the shots rollout is moving a little too fast we've got specialists we've got a researcher saying that there's a hazard there's a danger links to this to this vaccine i think is very reasonable why are countries rolling out you've got so much information coming out on this specific. that scene and something which is deaf and not safe and it's not giving good reputation to the vaccine because people are feeling in the west that we're forcing some of these rats down their throats or at least in the jabs and they don't even know if this is safer not despite a lot of the information we're getting not only from the astra zeneca vaccine but other vaccines because of course this is a disease a vaccine that been developed quite quickly we didn't know so much about the code and lot of people are just skeptical even before there was a whole

a crowd of ira situation please bear in mind that the european union bought 300000000 doses of the astra zeneca vaccine in august the august so the european union committed to buy this vaccine parity is not enough tests i've never got to know if it was safe or not and there's a lot of money behind all this to get. a lot of your putin has responded to being branded a killer by his american counterpart joe biden during a recent t.v. interview artie's constantine rushkoff has been picking apart the words of the 2 leaders. yeah because really i would just i would wish him good health i'm not joking i mean it secondly i want to say that's in the history of every country there are many tragic and dramatic events but when we judge people or other 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 court yard we were saying 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 diplomatic statements but you know at the same time he led everyone know that he is under no illusion about the nature of the u.s. policy towards russia. it is the only state that the united states government wants to maintain so it's in relations with those but on the issues of interest to the united states itself and on the facing just like them but with different we have a different genetic and cultural moral code but we know how to protect our interests yes we will work with them but in areas of interest to us and on terms

that benefit and they will have to deal with it well this whole story 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. and do so what price must he pay the price he's going to pay will you'll see shortly well that 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 the 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 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 and i quote dead and . geo political analyst patrick canning soon and journalist neil clark both believe u.s. diplomacy has reached an all time low. just 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 the get can set late because when you think of biden's record we talk about killers and we talk about

deaths well he just about us at 40 every walk of excited to hear this man use this kind of language that really is tell us everything we need to know about the degradation of the office of the president the u.s. it is ironic this comes after the company's office we were told don't trump was the one who is putting america into disrepute and yet we get biden coming in just a few weeks off because the president according to another world leader well really it is time so i think what's really gone badly wrong with western. well we took atlanta says 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 at the altar of trade that's what the u.k. foreign secretary has been accused of after a leaked recording revealed that he wants the u.k. to strike deals with countries regardless of human rights records. 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 are 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 depressing 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 robb's comments 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. the u.k. has trade deals worth billions of pounds with countries at the top of the human rights violations list in the last 4 years saudi arabia carried out more than 500 brutal executions as capital punishment while in india in 2020 recorded more than 1300 deaths in judicial custody the director of global justice now believes dominick robb's comments came as no surprise. 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 accused it so their own backbenches 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 is a basic human rights freezone 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 head that he put out yesterday the integrated defense group you had some absolutely chilling passages and including the fact that we're going to be increasing and you could have weapons stockpile by 40 percent and this is a deeply government and you know i think a trade policy is clearly going to play a role in future years in the promotion of british i'm british trans national

corporations around the world. russia marks the 7th anniversary of its reunification with crimea and president putin has been stressing the historic significance to the region holds for the nation at large that story and more coming your way after the break. to this summit in alaska representatives from china and the united states will meet for the 1st time since the advent of the buy in ministration what can beijing expect what will washington demand can the 2 sides agreed to disagree what would be a meeting of low expectations. is you'll be a reflection of reality. in

the world transformed. what will make you feel safe. isolation community. you good in the right way or are you being so. direct. what is true what is faith. in the world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the depths. or remain in the shallows. welcome back to the program the u.s. house of representatives has passed the so-called 'd dreamers bill which will enable millions of undocumented immigrants to obtain citizenship the law was voted

in with little republican support but it means democrats can now push ahead with their future immigration plans they are making a very big difference in how we respect the beautiful diversity of america how we respect the fact that immigration is the constant reinvigoration of america after closing the book on 4 years of disastrous cruel and inhumane immigration policies today we begin a new chapter has always been a pleasure for me to sing the praises of our dreamers they make us so proud they have and so many ways as the distinguished here has indicated. however local authorities along america's southern border are calling on the government to step in now as the region faces a record influx of migrants u.s. border patrol is struggling to provide cove and secure shelter for thousands of people the mayor of a town in arizona told us 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 arizona cities have seen. we were hoping to keep it that way unfortunately it doesn't look with them dropping these migrants in our community untested. southern states including arizona and alabama have borne the brunt of the migrant influx a recent poll suggests there are growing doubts about the ability of the federal government to cope with the situation on the us mexico border amid the pandemic biden and ministration has deployed the disaster agency fema to deal with the situation despite that being beyond its responsibilities mayor chris riggs again believes washington wasn't prepared for such a surge in migrant numbers there is definitely the concern of cove and how that it's going to impact my community. 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 are protected this is a crisis simple as that and i'm none of this on border patrol i put this strictly on the federal government as far as the current administration needs to step up and 3rd going to for this they need to do their job they need to have a plan in place obviously there was no plan. for u.s. news the u.s. intelligence agencies have now warned that american white supremacists are developing international links alarm bells were already going off on a domestic level following the storming of the capitol back in january. us racially or ethnic we motivated violent extremists who promote the superiority of the white

race other activists with the most persistent and concern in transnational connections we assess that a small number of us racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists have travelled abroad to network with like minded individuals this week the u.s. city of atlanta saw 8 people killed in a gunman by a gunman in shootings at a trio of spa complexes 6 of whom were asian a number of high ranking democrats including former president barack obama tweeted about the alarming rise in anti asian violence however the police quoted the suspect as saying the rate that race was not a motivation behind these attacks political commentator lauren chen believes the media has been inflating news about white supremacists more than the actual reality on the ground. well i think it's very concerning over the past few years how we've seen the definition of white supremacy get watered down to the point where now the term is essentially meaningless is that unfortunately people are very very liberal in applying the white supremacist label label where it simply does not belong and

what that actually does it is it makes it harder to combat real threats there was the recent shooting where asian women were killed that is an unfortunate tragic incident yes but there is a big difference in terms of how we prevent these attacks from happening when we say that someone was attacked and they happened to be asian versus they were attacked because they were asian and sadly that is a distinction that it seems the media is increasingly unwilling to make it's gotten to the point in terms of media coverage where you would assume that there was an anti asian or white supremacist shooting every week based on how much the media focuses on it and unfortunately what we have is people like my father who is asian now even scared to visit large cities because he thinks that anti asian sentiment is that bad which is not the case f.b.i. statistics show that asian americans are the least likely group to have hate crimes committed against them. russia's been marking the 7th anniversary of its reunification with crimea in 2014 more than 96 percent of the people there voted to break away and rejoin mainland russia following months of political turmoil and

civil unrest in ukraine with all the details hears are teasingly to trying to. 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 802040 was the happiest day as most of them say in the years or decades the russian president also sent and then motional 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 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 up 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 longer 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 too for footage of the

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a whole lot more than you're saying if you don't take that advice easy going to dig yourself. well consider alex salmond chill from scotland where we turn once again to the dominating issue of the now the 4 countries across united kingdom are performing well and the vaccine delights and it does seem that the end of this nightmare is tantalizingly insight covered 19 his last day yuki was more than $125.00 size and

date 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 vitus this fossum done with support police and in terms of suffering through. today we examine the condition of long cord with 2 experts on the debilitating impact of the straight for disease die out one is an immunologist and professor of immunology at imperial college london dr nastily mcdermott treated a ball 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 to treat xena's and messages in the spots to assure last big fish in 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 enjoyed 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 reply directly to that super missing well i wasn't asked to vote in a fair play he wasn't hopefully getting 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 was

returned at a lower rate and finally i had a break to look 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 and options are in scotland it starts with what's made in scotland stays in scotland just a year ago the long nightmare with gavin peace 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 wealthy and you expect to get better. every day's work.