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just a few moments into a new day here in. the weekend saturday march 20th welcome to the news hour on r.t. . italy's new prime minister said rome will be forced to make its own decision on the use of the russian vaccine. if it's not approved by the european medicines agency let's delve into this story with our europe correspondent joining us live peter all over. what's led to this potential slip within the block tell us more about the story in general and. well mario druggy is not long into this term stint for him as a tally in prime minister but he is staring out an uncomfortable state of deja vu when it comes to covert cases if you look around the intensive care ward in italian hospitals they are starting to fill up again as they feed 3rd wave of the

coronavirus in that country is becoming a reality what mario druggies had to say was the showed the european one for all the e.u. i beg your pardon i just european one for all and all for one vaccine procurement program not be working as it should than italy needs to step up to the plate for itself it needs to look out for itself when it comes to obtaining vaccines and making sure that its health care system has what it needs in order to be able to operate with the well the rising problems that it is facing now this includes vaccines as well and he was talking about russia's sputnik v. job saying that should europe not give us approval it's still in not early stages yet the proper approval plans haven't been put in place for the sputnik the job but it is whitely expected to happen very soon then italy if that

doesn't go through the european union italy will go out on its own and of tame that russian job and administer it to to the italian people as a similar message coming from here in berlin where i'm speaking to you from we've heard from the german chancellor angela merkel on friday evening after a big vaccine summit that took place with the leaders of the the 16 german states and her federal government vaccination vaccination vaccination the message coming out bad chancellor merkel saying that vaccines will be available here it local doctors surgeries by the end of april she also spoke about the sputnik job saying that germany would also go on its own to obtain it if it doesn't receive e.-m. a european medicines agency approval. fussin also sometimes stuff is fired the russian vaccine is considering have held the view for some time that we should use each vaccine that is approved by the european medicines agence singh but if

a new such european order were mate and i have seen no indication that it will be germany would have to go it alone that is a possibility and this what we would do. well there are also reports on friday morning that a facility in the german state of budding fortan bug may be getting ready to produce the sputnik vaccine here in the european union that seems to be waiting e.m.e.a. approval vote angle or merkel was also talking about other vaccines she was speaking about the astra zeneca jab said that she would take that job herself comes after it's been a interesting twisting turning week for astra zeneca a number of e.u. nations including germany suspended the use of the vaccine while concerns over potential links to blood clots were carried out the european medicines agency announced on thursday that there was no significant risk posed to people taking the

vaccine and that people should get the vaccine that being vaccinated against cove it far outstripped any possible risks that could be posed but that hasn't stopped a number of scandinavian nations saying that they still weren't ready to give the astra zeneca vaccine the green light we've seen finland denmark and norway all say they want to well they want more information on astra zeneca and any potential risks it could pose. due to several serious cases in norway we want to thoroughly review the situation before we make a conclusion. but the reality what we're seeing around the world though at the moment is some countries have taken leaps and strides ahead when it comes to vaccinating their citizens all of those staring down the barrel of a 3rd wave of covert 90. our europe correspondent peter oliver bringing us right up to date with all those developments over in the u.k.

the astra zeneca vaccine happen much faster than within the but a british nurse told us many people are still reluctant to take. people who are concerned about this fee which the facts in nations we develop so that's now compounded toolbox and concerns around blood clots in the connection with these these brain blood clots that can develop or they you know this is fission that they may defend after this particular that summation had a conversation yesterday a patient who actually said that he would not be getting that one and he has now gone on to a different brand of vaccination because he's lost confidence in that. earlier prime minister bars johnson said he plans to take the astra zeneca job on urged other people to do the same but naomi bennett again thinks members of the public are right to be cautious about it. 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 actions develop so there is a lot of concerns about you know how safe are the vaccine and now it's you know i just i just hope that every some think it nice. let's stay in britain where the government is facing a wall of resistance regarding its plans to sell asylum seekers to overseas territories for processing to polter on the isle of man are believed to be 2 of the options migrants will go there before potentially being sent back to their original countries local authorities who are saying they want nothing to do with the scheme boris johnson's 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 who are being combed by going stews 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 terror many of whom have gone on to work as doctors and nurses in the n.h.s. these absurd ideas show the government has lost control and all sense of compassion

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 roading international protection for refugees but at this point we have heard 'd 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 accept britain so the situation is looking critically. 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 long been described as a 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 although 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 heard from joseph during a lecture in migration policy at the london school of economics he thinks the offshore processing plan 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 the process the art of manageable it will save lives about 100 g.'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 decide and claims have been rejected the rates of deportation are extremely low it's extremely expensive it streaming made me difficult extremely calm and the idea between behind this policy is essentially to isolate people in remote areas so easy it's a survey and the easy answer now how you would get people from the mainland u.k. . also 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 call for the british government to. 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 $6000000.00 around half a 1000000 are not western migrants or the descendants of immigrants that equates to run 9 percent of the population lives being a mixed reaction to the plans expects and hawkins takes us through it will be quite

a few other nations with high a migrant population is keeping a close eye on copenhagen's progress. 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 the a countries by reducing the numbers of such undesirables in communities many of the above list of problems could apparently be solved this core foods is bad for. groups in a positive development in residential areas making them more attractive to words range of the population i think 30 years may be kind of a drastic number. if i don't know many of the saddle of with like 50 i prefer different people living side by side but is 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 a man with them. they would try this way to racially divided us would i would not feel such areas in denmark already face special treatment such as doubled

penalties for crimes collective punishment by a vixen mandatory language tests and training it daily should be values for kids and the limits on public housing this is a policy rooted in. 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 or that's where european governments have built their failed to integrate minority communities because they're what we've seen them as in what we've 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 his 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 your states 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 they'll be the most libertarian they'll be the african area and they'll be the kind of western areas and what happens is people fail to integrate now i'll be only just with you i genuinely think that the problem here is that we have less it too many immigrants to your approach you quickly thought what's 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. it seems he took a few hours of news networks with him to the bigger show c.n.n. limiting in the ratings we've got live reaction in.

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right we have no organ for time nor could we because time is an immaterial physical substance. matter or light so the brain has to create the perception of time. alone again it appears that post white house is proving something of a turn off quite literally ratings have been released showing the news network c.n.n. lost nearly half of its primetime audience following the former presidents the parcher from office almost 2 and a half 1000000 viewers were tuning in daily between november 4th election date joe biden or gratian day in january after that the numbers dropped significantly 47 percent in the key demographic of 25 to 54 year olds let's get some reaction

to this and welcome all to the program political media live from new york city great to see you i put it was this to be expected when the whirlwind that was the trumpet ministration exited the white house i firmly large audience was always going to disappear with it no. absolutely absolutely it was c.n.n. it was their their their rassilon d'être pardon my poor french pronunciation it's the only reason they existed every day people would tune in to hear the anti trump rhetoric but also to listen to what insane connections they can make between everything and trump you had jim acosta you had the the white house press liaison from c.n.n. when trump the actually had a press conference is he actually had them not this version today where you have to

submit questions ahead of time and it was it was brutal it was exciting it was it was it was interesting that's done because what c.n.n. has to do now is to get up to to raise the expectations of what amounts to especially today a said message dotard who doesn't know where he is and i'm being kind of c n n's missing viewers lionel switched to rivals or simply switched off entirely no longer finding the new so interesting. they well i would think they would move elsewhere because there tend to be news news oriented and the only thing available . might be another one of the other pro biden you know a miss d.n.c. and others but but it goes for everyone because it's a matter of just this is just reality who wants to hear i've been tired today a program you say wasn't that fantastic did you notice the certitude did you notice

how great this president was when he's not and meanwhile fox and newsmax to an extent annoy him and others are enjoying incredible ratings because they can turn that venom and excitement against the biden administration because let's face it people. to be excited by the nudes and usenet the donald trump was let me say this to greivis president of my lifetime in terms of magnitude in terms of how we transformed everything every single moment of the day we said what is trump doing today it's nothing to to go step can i just put a point to it but the other networks did see then or even other mainstream media that they miss a trick by not trying to stretch a hunter cross the aisle to the more moderate conservative center center right because a lot of them don't appear to you know fox has a big viewership but a lot of conservatives don't like fox because it's too opinionated so you've got

channels who maybe could have said you know what we're center left but we'll make an exception on certain hours of the day or something to try and get that huge that half a percentage of america's population to quit watching news again but you know the ratings are in the toilet that the missile it and i think you're perfectly correct let me append to that brilliant observation what i think people want to hear more than anything else is is confrontation it's not that people will say i only want to hear negative trump but if somebody said we really are going to give you an honest to god fair and balanced attack an appraisal thing i would love it if they turned and attacked by because let's face it we live in a world now of social media of trolling of immediate reaction there's no such thing as milk toast they could have done wonders by attacking if you will anybody who deserved attacking but what they are is these are apparatchiks these are sock

puppets for the democratic party and everybody knows that but now that there's no trump to attack there's nothing there it's they are i mean it is serious they don't know what to do and fact it's so bad they're trying to go back into. to compare current affairs current events with what 12 would have or did do you just finally got to the point i was going to put to will this be shock therapy for c.n.n. bosses looking at these plummeting figures and saying you know what we're losing revenue we're losing viewers what do we do what would you do. that only that little the chance of being the entire platform is changing you have civilian and citizen blogs and podcasts that are just as much as exciting if not more so it's a model for c.n.n. it's over they don't understand is jeff zucker's on his way you've got comcast big news people a.t.t. you you've got people who are really trying to reevaluate is it worth this money

anymore do they really deliver or is it time for them to move on this is a transitional stage and i love it well i know you won't say it so i will you called it many times on this program or a speaking to that there was going to be a problem with c.n.n. those. those viewers when donald trump there parted so thank you very much for coming the program sharing your views with us lying old media and political analyst live from new york's thank you sir thank you. for the kremlin has repeated its offer to washington for the 2 nations presidents to hold a meeting which would be broadcast live longer putin being trying to bring bach diplomacy really after some harsh comments from joe biden a little earlier in the week so far though the u.s. has not responded to requests for talks taylor picks up the story. 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 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 works and 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 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 boy we were going forward 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 we engage with russian leaders 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. first 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 admin page and 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 she's away in siberia this we can't see any time it's not available otherwise he's ready to go but apparently joe biden wasn't a fan of the idea was to present 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 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. are taking us through the valleys are unusual for noah be back with all of the latest developments in just over 30 but don't go too for more great programs get their start in ruins.

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hello and welcome to cross talk for all things considered i'm peter lavelle to the summit in alaska representatives from china and the united states will meet for the 1st time since the advent of the biden ministration what can beijing expect what will washington demand and the 2 sides agree to disagree would be a meeting of low expectations. across talking china u.s. relations i'm joined by my guest daniel is our in new york he is a journalist and author of 3 books on the u.s. constitution includes we have daniel mcadams he is the executive director of the ron paul institute for peace and prosperity and in north bill we cross to tom watkins he is president and c.e.o. of p.t.w. associates a global business and education.