scandinavian countries say. the european medicines agencies conclusion. also coming up the program british controlled territories reject a government. for processing all the opposition. to reduce the number of western residents in some neighborhoods 30 percent over the next decade in a quest to improve integration between. the

program from welcome to. your company 'd names in the. scandinavian countries are extending a freeze on the use of the. vaccine that's despite the european medicines agency concluding on thursday about the drug was quote safe and effective a lot of developments let's. take a. let's start with finland which has now suspended the use of the astra zeneca jab while they can best against shoe cases of potential blood clots on top of that we know the norway denmark and sweden they're all holding back from restarting their programs all of them still have concerns about issues surrounding astra zeneca and saying that they going to carry out the investigations now due to several serious

cases and no way we want to thoroughly review the situation before we make a conclusion pull blood clots i is the issue that speaking just cussed over and over nots initially will be the main was investigating over the last week oh say but there have been of the much more serious effects that some say to astra zeneca let's have a look now at some of those cases. now

the a.m.a. of course did carry out extensive investigations into these possible side effects and what they said at the press conference on thursday is that the vaccines benefit in protecting people from coronavirus related deaths school hospitalisations continued to outweigh the possible links as a result of taking the astra zeneca vaccine and that's why they really approved it rubber stamp it once again for use but it's not just countries nordic countries who . still querying the use of astra zeneca here in france the country's health authority has now given new advice about the job saying that can only be used for those over the age of 55 now you might wonder why that seems so odd but if i go back just a couple weeks ago we've been told by the authorities here in france that astra zeneca shouldn't be used with those in old age groups so it does feel for many is

if the new advice is a complete u. turn and it is leaving many people questioning why well the reason is because the may also on thursday suggested that they were a possible increased risk of blood clots for those under the age of $55.00 if they had the astra zeneca job so this health authority in france the national health authority is out of an abundance of caution saying we will not give the job to anybody at that age group now here in france there would be $1400000.00 doses of astra zeneca that have been doled out so for many of those have been due to health professionals some of which of course will be under the age of $55.00 the question that they might be asking themselves is if they've only had the 1st dose movie get the 2nd dose it's not clear so many people probably feeling as if they're in some kind of limbo at the moment and there is of course this huge mistrust of the astra

zeneca vaccine already only 20 percent of people recently surveyed said that they had confidence in this vaccine so much so that the french prime minister went on television live on friday and had himself the astra zeneca job don't worry he's 55 so he wasn't breaking protocol but there's also now the question as to what this means for the may itself we now have countries across the european union who are deciding that it's rubber stamping of us just that it is. it's quite good enough let's not forget that the maid is the scientific body for the whole of the european union this is the party that looks at medicines and decides if it's to approve them so the idea that countries are now questioning want to double check the figures the investigations over this issue the vaccines really does raise that question of trust and at a time when we're now being told that there are not enough vaccines to prevent

a 3rd could be 1000 wave here in europe and many people may now be saying you know actually i don't want the proxy i would prefer to have read your big issues that need to be resolved. well over in the u.k. be astra zeneca. happen much faster than in the you without in mind british nurse told us many people are reluctant to take the pill people were concerned about this which the facts in nations we develop so that's now compounded with tools and concerns around blood clots in the connection with these these brain blood clots that can develop all day you know this is fission that they may defend after this particular vaccination i had a conversation yesterday a patient who actually said that he would not be getting that one and he has now gone on to different brand of vaccination because he's lost confidence in that.

well earlier prime minister barak johnson said he plans himself to take the stress on the kid job urging others to do likewise but only bennett's again thanks members of the public are right to be cautious. but i think the big concerns are warranted as we are because we don't really want to be gambling with people's lives you know it's not and there was a lot of talk around this speed at which the facts in the nation developed so there is a lot of concerns about how you know how safe are the vaccine and now it's you know i just i just hope that every some think it might. stay in britain where the government is facing a wall the president's regarding its plans to send asylum seekers to overseas territories for processing gibraltar on the isle of man are believed to be 2 of the options migrants will go there before potentially being sent by to their original

countries local authorities however say they want nothing to do with the scheme or is johnson has defended the idea. the objective here is to is to save life and avert human misery because people are crossing the channel who are being fooled who are being combed by gangsters into paying huge sums of money risking their lives people have died beaking this trying to make this crossing and it is a deeply repugnant traffic that we need to stop well that idea was 1st suggested by pretty brutal the home secretary amid the escalating migrant crisis though at the time it was branded a sick joke however that idea has now resurfaced from the prime minister barak johnson well critics have long said that this kind of policy will only make the journey all the more risky and that the government should really be prioritizing legal alternatives and safe passages for migrants to enter the united kingdom but

on this latest policy they've branded as exacerbating the hostile environment it is an inhumane paula said that undermines our nation's proud tradition of providing protection to people fleeing persecution and well even the united nations has waded into this latest plan of shipping asylum seekers and refugees to remote areas in exchange for cash by calling it a risk to eroding international protection for refugees but at this point we have heard from some of those remote territories british remote territories are saying they're having none of it along with ideas to build a road tunnel under the irish sea you're a bridge above it this latest idea simply as to the rich tapers tree of life we're dealing with at present april the 1st isn't until next month but nonetheless the idea is expected to be included in policy papers as of next week as part of a wider shake up of asylum falls in a post for xcept britain so the situation is looking critically bleak for asylum seekers here in the united kingdom in fact right now asylum seekers are being

housed in temporary accommodation including former army military barracks that have been. being described as prison like we've seen outbreaks and totally. hygiene facilities as well which is also met huge criticism from charities organizations and the labor party as well it seems as though the case of asylum seekers has long been a thorn in the government's side and so now this latest idea to ship them off to remote territories seems as though the government is changing its tactic of lock them up and throw away the key to out of sight out of mind we go for the reaction on this from joseph during a lecture in migration policy at the london school of economics he thinks the offshore processing problem for migrants is misguided. he's referencing people trafficking criminal gangs which are important right people reach nikkei as they are in people reaching the whole of europe but whether sticking with asylum seekers

we process the art of manageable it will save lives about the 100 g.t.s. there's a logic in terms of trying to trying to stop losing people in the general population right this is basically what's happened in the past 1520 years here in the u.k. when people to sign claims have been rejected the rates of deportation are extremely low is extremely expensive it she need to be difficult extremely cumbersome and the idea between behind this policy is essentially to isolate people in remote areas easier to survey and then easier to remove now how you would get people from the mainland u.k. to due process are all to the isle of man without significant issues that's the bit for me that remains to be seen and i don't see there being a clear pathway for the british government to do that. let's stay in europe denmark has proposed legislation that aims to reduce the number of quote non-western residents in neighborhoods to

a maximum of 30 percent within 10 years out of denmark a population of just under 6000000 around half a 1000000 are non western migrants or put ascendance of immigrants that's around 9 percent of the population there's been a mixed reaction to the plans. hawkins takes us through it will be a lot of other nations keeping a close eye on copenhagen progresses. multiculturalism means different things to different people and has been described by bullet oceans as both a strength and a force for good and a failed experiment bringing more problems and solutions the danish government has its own view and vision of the future when many non-western immigrants settle in certain residential areas it increases the risk of create in parallel religious and cultural societies therefore the government will now work to create a mixed house in areas and ensure that in 10 years residents with non-western backgrounds make up a maximum of 30 percent in our house in areas in denmark to be classed as

a ghetto an area must have a high number of non-western migrants high unemployment and crime low income and poor education an area could be all of the above yet be majority white and therefore not be classed as a ghetto boy non westerners authorities mean anyone not from denmark switzerland or they eat a country's and by reducing the numbers of such undesirables in communities many of the above listed problems could apparently be solved this core foods is a bad choice in barrels and grooves in a positive development in residential areas making them more attractive to words range of the population i think 3rd is maybe kind of interesting numbers. if i don't know many of the staff all of with like 50 i prefer different people living side by side but it's very very difficult to implement into this is it's important that we don't push people out of their homes if i was personally and

worse. they would try this way to racially divided us would i would not feel welcome such areas in denmark already face special treatment such as doubled penalties for crimes collective punishment by a vixen mandatory language tests and training a daily should be used for kids and the limits on public housing this is a policy rooted. prejudice and racism and when you are you know labeling it as non-western which means anybody who's brown. i think is the problem probably problematic and so integration is a 2 way street it can't be the responsibility just of the people who move into any particular country and that's where european governments have built their fails to integrate minority communities because they have always seen them as the enemy and they've always seen them as not equally part of their societies similar plans came to light a few years back and caused a stir with even the un expressing its concern about what it called forced

assimilation denmark isn't the only european state dealing with the issue of ghettoization france and neighboring sweden have had their own share of troubles there is a significant problem right across europe with the ghettoization i remember after some terror attacks in paris i went over to one of the your sites on the outskirts of town which was predominantly muslim now there's nothing wrong with that but what you have a tendency to find this in a lot of these european cities will be the most libertarian will be the african area and the be the kind of western area and what happens is people fail to integrate now of the only slave i genuinely think that the problem here is that we have less it too many immigrants to your approach you quickly pause whilst this isn't a perfect solution you can understand where it comes from copenhagen to set an ambitious and i'm president of plan to tackle a political football head on other countries will watch closely to see it sink or swim. this is our to international still ahead after

a gunman in the us killed 8 people including 6 asians this week we ask if the mainstream media were too quick to assume the motive was racial hatred a story of more. to this summit in alaska representatives from china and the united states will meet for the 1st time since the advent of the 5 in ministration what can from asia expect washington demand can the 2 sides agreed to disagree would be a meeting of low expectations. seems wrong. wrong just don't call. me. yet to stamp out this day become active. and engaged equals betrayal.

when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. join me every thursday on the alex i'm unsure when i'll be speaking to a guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. hello again the kremlin has repeated itself or to washington for the nation's 2 presidents to hold a meeting which would be broadcast live blogging or putin has been trying to bring back diplomacy after some harsh comments from cho biden earlier in the week but so far the u.s. has not responded to requests for talks taylor can pick up the story for us. well

we all know that moscow and washington are no strangers to tense relations but many had hoped this was a thing of the past however of recent days seem to show that very little has changed since the cold war the same suspicions the same war of words are alive and well decades on and in fact in a sign that such an impossible breaking point has been reached moscow was forced to admit that despite its best efforts and despite its hopes to the contrary the might be no option but to relive a kind of threw back to the low points of the past of course we always hope for the best and prepare for the worst the president has clearly expressed his desire to maintain relations between russia and the u.s. no matter what and says she's not only in our interest but the entire world's why is such a resigned tone from the kremlin well just to recap quickly you argued this week on

national television president biden essentially called vladimir putin's a killer a shocking statement that was unprecedented in its lack of diplomacy unfounded in its lack of evidence and really unexpected given moscow's insistence over the years that a wants to work with the washington and in keeping with this tradition despite that remarkable comment from his american counterpart vladimir putin reiterated russia's readiness to cooperate with all countries of the world including the u.s. but washington stopped by its guns person by the way going forward but you. know the president gave a direct answer to a direct question i would say that the president already had a conversation already with president putin even as there are more world leaders that he has not yet engaged with and reengage with russian leaders and members of the government at all levels but i don't have anything to report to you in terms of

a future meeting the president will. course be in georgia tomorrow and quite busy we seem to be seeing a never admit never apologized policy regardless of the consequences for must go more and all of branch an attempt to defuse the escalating situation in fact of the adamant putin did even suggest a quite unique a more sort of malton format for them to hash out their differences a one on one live streamed discussion between the 2 leaders where people from all over the world can tune in and watch them discussing a variety of political issues and he said that while he's away in siberia this we can't see any time he's not available otherwise he's ready to go but apparently joe biden wasn't a fan of the idea mr president a lot of the oval office would you agree with. and it's not just biden turning his back on this invitation the white house has not responded to an official request which moscow and top prints as rejection but it is important to

note that whilst this might seem somewhat play for maybe even a touch funny it was a very serious suggestion a serious suggestion for a serious situation because with washington apparently refusing to engage in any kind of dialogue pursuing this provocative rhetoric with the russian ambassador to the u.s. also having been recalled for talks there is absolutely no doubt that relations between the 2 countries are under exceptional strain at the moment. the european union has pledged to slush its green has go submissions by her over the coming decade and it's going to cost the european commission chief sees that if the goal is going to be reached hundreds of billions of euro is going to have to be spent on boosting renewable energy we want to take green financing to the next level. because to achieve our 2030 gone we need to

boost. green investment we know that we will have to invest around $3350000000000.00 euros more per year in the energy system in the coming decade to make it sustainable and the international renewable energy agency has given its own assessment of just how much needs to be spent to keep a rising global temperatures to under 1.5 degrees celsius by 2050 from here to get to here that's going to be 33 trillion dollars on top as we're seeing of the currently projected investment of $98.00 trillion dollars so that is an extra trillion dollars every year to from the global threats from fossil fuels to alternative sources of energy all this happening at a time of global onder spending on infrastructure generally a study backed by the g 20 estimates that an extra 15 trillion dollars is going to have to be spent mostly in transport over the coming years a lot of figures there earlier we discussed the climate crisis government spending

plans with a financial journalist and environmental scientist. at the same time that was spending the money we're creating green jobs all think beef is doable it's going to be painful but in the long term it's going to benefit me it's going to offset that damage that's happening to climate change right now and it's getting worse year on year on year where it is happening you know me can patent storms through heat waves to move to the wildfires that we are painful we're now all these things have to be addressed urgently and we certainly need to plan my point is as more of a long term plan than just just funding we have to have a strategy has to be long term or just this obsession with governments to do what ocular just look 36 months down the line and then a year from our most people just forgot about that that applies to renewables of which i'm an investor and the parent i meet and the policy and everything else that's going on right now we really need long term plans all of these things and

there is the money we just age around age accordingly so i want to see a long term strategy for renewables that's that's achievable in the same way as we . as with a pandemic and it seems like maybe we haven't really got a proper strategy for either at the moment before we have to do it in the in the right or that's my concern it's awful that i learned to have to spend the time on health now or to spend time on climate change later i appreciate it is a balancing act and there's only so much money available but i think that the more money you spend tackling climate change as quickly as possible the less you can pay down the line to. u.s. intelligence agencies are claiming that the threat posed by whites a premises groups has increased significantly this year it comes in the wake of a shooting in atlanta in which 8 people died including 6 asians know the media was quick to label the incident as being driven by race. let's talk about motive police

say that the suspect claims he had a sex addiction but there's also concern that the killings were racially motivated and several advocacy groups warn that these shootings are likely to heighten fears among all asian americans that is just textbook i don't even understand why it wouldn't be charged as a hate crime or police have said it's too soon to say if the shootings which occurred of a series of spirals race hate motive the suspect himself is believed to have blamed it on his sex addiction a rights group in atlanta though representing asian americans herzlich be not spring to white supremacy but political commentator lauren chin believes the term is being overused and over politicized 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 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 lauren chen is our lots for not so good a time as any to remind you that the very latest global news updates can be fun to on our twitter page i promise you will be bored there so yourself.

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and to serve because visionary to me sophie shevardnadze it flows and runs drugs and flies and it's never enough how does our brain keep track of time joined by dean one amman's you see i mean you are scientists and author of your brain is a time machine. name one i know hugh seal a neuroscientist author of your brain it is a time machine great to have you with us on our show today welcome it's my pleasure sophie thank you so much for having me city and let's start with looking at how we perceive time if you look at the traditional depictions of time write the dallies

nothing clock or correct it is his concept of time being there were that you cannot step twice into worry d. we get this idea that time is fluid is there any scientific explanation to that you know that's an interesting question i think for most humans there's few things that are as dominant as the notion that time is flowing 'd right that the past is evaporating into miss an accessible experience and opening the doors 'd to the future so this flow of time this fluid motion of time is one of our most profound subjective experiences no doubt right we feel like we're losing the current the past is no longer under our control and we're opening new doors to the future so that's trying to couple to consciousness so consciousness creates.