to join us in the. forum even the shallows. at least in germany consider breaking ranks with the european union in using russia but nick v. even if the european regulators doesn't give approval. to this controlled territories reject a government plan to send migrant staff a process if you kill position runs the idea inhumane and ridiculous. joe biden hits the rise in hate crimes against asians in america was stirred up by his previous source of with the mainstream media also piling blame on trump for the country's. very good morning to you and thanks so much for joining us here on r.t. international. italy's new prime minister says rome will be forced to make its own

decision on the use of russia's sputnik v. job if it's not approved by the european medicines agency and sap the trust in the us to send a good job in europe started to become shaken by recent safety fears auntie's peeta other explains mario druggies not being long in the job is a tally in prime minister but he's already leading a country that's got an uneasy sense of deja vu at the moment when it comes to covert 19 it was just over a year ago that italy was at the very tip of the spear when it came to the coronavirus of driving in europe and now we're seeing intensive care beds in italy filling up at an alarming rate as fears of a 3rd wave have become reality mario draghi has said that he will operate outside of the use one for all and all for one procurement program if it gets one italy. let's order speed. think b. and c.

what happens if you're a peon coordination especially in health care does not work we have to be ready to act on our own and it's not only me saying this chancellor merkel told me that if the european medicines agency certifies sputnik be then ok but if it does not germany will do so itself this is normal pragmatism we have to work on the basis of european unity but if it's not achieved we have to try other ways german chancellor angela merkel has also been talking about vaccines she was speaking after a summit between the federal government here in berlin and the leaders of germany 16 states vaccination dominating those talks and local doctors here will start to be able to give out the jobs in germany at the end from the end of april now under merkel also spoke about russia's sputnik of a vaccine and she said that whether or not it gets approval from the european medicines agency she expects to see it being used here in germany in the fight

against corona virus 1st and also sent him stuff under long as fire the russian vaccine is concerned i have held the view for some time that we should use each of x. and that is approved by the european medicines agence singh but if a new such european order were made 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. as the head of the berlin branch of the german red cross i hear that many scientists from the berlin charity clinic say that the research documents the studies available about sputnik the give a positive impression vaccination is the only serious way to fight covert 19 and my demands are demand is the following we is the german bread cross or impartial and do not interfere in political issues but we would like a non ideological decision on vaccines to be made and that everything that is scientifically based is allowed in germany. on the european market this applies to

us and to me and to the sputnik v. in this sense there should be no ideological or geopolitical reasons that would dictate selective behavior and my impression is that at least here in germany there's not enough information for scientists to study it properly in recent weeks and days this is change in the most fundamental way and i hear that opinions of many doctors and pharmacists who've been working on this topic including from the eminent charity that splitting v can be trusted and that if the a and relevant departments fail to approve it they will lose people's trust on friday morning there were reports coming out here in germany that a facility in boston verdant book was being prepared as a potential site to produce sputnik v. in europe that if it gets approval from the european medicines agency now the german chancellor wasn't just talking about the sputnik vaccine while she was speaking to the press on friday evening she also talked about the astra zeneca vaccine said she would take that astra zeneca job her self it's been

a tough week for astra zeneca 20 e.u. nations and european nations suspended the use of the vaccine over potential links or concerns over potential links to blood clots in relation to those who've had the job the european medicines agency gave an extensive press conference on thursday in which they said the benefits of taking the astra zeneca vaccine far outweighed any potential risks now that saw a number almost all of those countries that had carried out this is spent of astra zeneca resume using the astra zeneca vaccine however denmark finland norway of all said they're going to hold off reintroducing it norway saying they need more information due to several serious cases in norway we want to thorough review the situation before we make a conclusion there is a real mix state of affairs at the moment with. some countries around the world

taking strides and leap said when it comes to vaccinating their populations while others are staring down the barrel of a 3rd way of coping 90. a british government plan to process asylum seekers in overseas toa trees are sparked anger gibraltar and the man are believed to be 2 options to which migrants could go before potentially being sent back to their original countries the local authorities say they want nothing to do with the scheme boris 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 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 little 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 for 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 there 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. that jury migration policy at the london school of economics downing believes that such an offshore processing plant is misguided. he's referencing people trafficking criminal gangs which are important right in people reach nikkei as they are in people reaching the whole of europe but whether sticking with asylum seekers the process in all of manageable it will save lives about the g.d.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's asylum claims have been rejected the rates of deportation are extremely low is extremely expensive it should be difficult extremely canvasser and

the idea between behind this policy is essentially to isolate people in remote areas easier to so it's a survey in an easy to remove now how you would get people from the mainland u.k. to due process 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 pathway for the british government to do that. president joe biden and his v.p. camilla harris have visited a lantern which recently saw mass shootings at a number of mass parlors in which 8 people were killed 6 of the victims were asian women biden harris denounce the atrocities of the vice president gave her view on what's been causing the rising levels of hate against america's asian population for the last year we've had people in positions of incredible power scapegoating scapegoating asian americans people with the biggest part bit's spreading this

kind of hate. or biden an hour recently hinted at who they think's to blame the mainstream media has been openly pointing the finger at the trump ministration donald trump didn't pull the trigger in atlanta but donald trump certainly was responsible for the anger in the fear of the suspicion that exists in in great degree in this country much more so than ever in the past and it's not just the shootings in atlanta that are being laid at donald trump's door hotties right guess the of reports it is been a tough few weeks for joe 50 days in office in the problems keep piling up fortunately and thank the polls for these even with trump gone you can still blame your problems on him the last administration left us a dismantled an unworkable system we are dedicated to achieving and quite frankly are working around the clock to replace the cruelty of the passage ministration to

put it succinctly the prior administration dismantled our nation's immigration system in its entirety. a solid year democrats and biden praised migrants you remember that don't you citizenship for millions they promised within 100 days i'm going to send to united states congress a pathway to citizenship for over 11000000 undocumented people and all of those so-called dreamers those docket kids they're going to be immediately certified again to be able to stay in this country oh gosh diving who could have predicted that promising millions of people potential citizenship would flood your borders with another wave of migrants more and more migrants who believed biden's populist election rhetoric and people smugglers for whom business is booming but biden apparently didn't mean everything that he said thousands of kids are still in

detention centers waiting deportation to mexico and you know what biden's white house is telling the crowds at the border who he gave so much hope to. goo way the message isn't done come now it is done come in this way ever do it to come to the united states is still illegal pathways then there's the pandemic which has ruined so much for all of us merica has been ravaged by couvade like nowhere outs that is been a disaster trumps disaster if you believe biden are trying to survive others say god love the failed ordering of axes failed of all eyes the effort to administer the shots failed a set of facts centers at a certain point the trump bashing becomes too much even for the liberal press trump all his scenes operation warp speed last year under which the development of

a vaccine its production and distribution were carried out at an unprecedented pace that was trump that wasn't biden and even the pundits agreed. even the media acknowledges a top administration troll is spearheading the development and procurement but president biden refuses to say the truth is the biggest scam is biden taking credit for the vaccine remember when joe biden and common harris spent months lying about not trusting the vaccine simply because president trump spearheaded operation warp speed now they're trying to take credit for it sick people or take ads he age and violence that has really had its ugly head over the last year on the one hand trump did say borderline or outright offensive things about china and others i think there's no question that some of the damaging rhetoric that we saw. during the prior administration blaming you know calling coded you know the virus or other

things. lead to you know perceptions of the asian american community that are inaccurate unfair have raised. you know threatening has elevated threats against asian americans on the other you just call and trust biden's all jobs but it comes to trump baps responsible for the ads the asian violence that is also risen in britain and europe elsewhere and how do you blame trump for a spree of attacks in atlanta as the white house hinted when police themselves say it was not racially motivated the suspect did take responsibility for the shootings he does claim that it was not racially motivated he apparently has an issue what he considers a fiction and sees these locations as something that allows him to to

to go to these places and into the temptation for him that he wanted to eliminate we're going to be honest here barden inherited a mess the pal long are they going to keep sweeping all their problems. under the trump rug as opposed to you know try solve them especially considering that a significant amount of that mess in graun the democrats created themselves. still ahead of president biden admits the u.s. is unlikely to meet trump's promised deadline for pulling troops out of afghanistan story under this after this break. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy on sunday shouldn't let it be an arms race off and spearing dramatic developments only mostly

i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. the world is driven by shaped by our own person. who dares thinks. we dare to ask.

recently published t.v. ratings in america. appeared to show that the post donald trump white house is a bit of a turnoff figures show c.n.n. has lost almost half its primetime audience following the former president's departure from office almost 2 and a half 1000000 viewers switching each day between election day on the 4th and joe biden's inauguration in january but after that the numbers really dropped off down 47 percent in the key demographic 25 to 54 years old media and legal analyst lionel think strong trunk was a golden goose when it came to media ratings. 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 and it was it

was brutal it was exciting it was it was it was interesting that's done this is just reality who wants to hear i didn't tire day a program you say wasn't that fantastic did you notice the shutter chewed did you notice how great this president was when he's not and meanwhile fox and newsmax to an extent annoying and others are enjoying incredible ratings because they can turn that venom and excitement against the biden administration what i think people want to hear more than anything else is is confrontation 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 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 for what they are is these are apparatchiks these are shot puppets for the democratic party and everybody knows that but now that there's no trump to attack there's nothing they. present biden's admitted that it will be tough for the us to meet this deadline for pulling american troops out of afghanistan with a ministration now considering a 6 month extension of their presence in the country donald trump promised to withdraw the remaining 12000 troops by may 1st the toll of the war on afghanistan civilians that's been immense. i mean and he would be either my husband was a vendor your selling street food or the abdul hug and a bat when the explosion happened my neighbors didn't want to tell me that my

husband had been killed because they saw i'm a woman with 3 paralyzed children and have heart disease to working with great difficulty it working to serve the people but eventually my neighbor came and told me that my husband had been killed in a suicide bombing it is 15 years since they came to kabul and i'm living here because of my children i searched for my husband but there was no news about him there are thousands here widows who are living west and me every morning when i am going out i see others living in west situations than me i become very sad. my husband was in the afghan national army before she was an employee it has been about 4 years since he was killed i have a daughters and one son my son is 13 years old my children couldn't get any

educational schooling i want to say no to war there should be no killings anymore no country house children have faced mental problems and war affected my children. for the little i was sitting there with my brothers was a bomb dropped on my house the bombardment began from years drums my brother was killed as we know no one will be lives and live in this war there were a lot of people killed my 3 children were also killed the month before michael. early this week moscow hosted a meeting including representatives of the afghan government and the taliban it aimed at reaching a negotiated settlement and a comprehensive cease fire russia the us china and pakistan acting as mediators talks resulted in a statement the taliban to refrain from conducting

a spring offensive part is also a call for a continuation of peace negotiations in doha we spoke with one of the participants of those talks in moscow who says that real progress was my. expectation was that when the talks started to. violence will be deduced big deal that has not happened as of yet. unfortunately the war continues in all the major players. asking for sissies and up while asian hopefully this meeting in clear messages given through this meeting to both sides will help us in. certainly complementing the door or or any future talks which takes place it is reenergizing get there and it was the right if what i've done. but every 2 leads for most sites

this law make the public of afghanistan and the taliban. as long as the stomach the public up on the sun is concerned i can assure you that it was very helpful in that . it will it will help us. within the country in all saw throughout the negotiations. is loss of parliamentary immunity jail and alleged ties with artie's editor in chief just a few of the things former catalan leader a member of european parliament colors put him on speaks about in the latest episode of going underground puts the man was a key figure in catalonia independence referendum a 27 team that was ruled illegal by spain and he was forced to flee the country became an m.e.p. and 29 t. but earlier this month the european parliament stripped projected on of his parliamentary immunity you can watch the full interview on our channel throughout the day is a preview. tell me what their removal of your immunity from prosecution means

might clear a threat against one of the bases of the european democracy. which consist in the trending fundamental rights human values that are up for a while you were in jail in schleswig. what did it personally feel like now charge that spain has presented are not acceptable you know western democracy work what kind of crime is syndication or 1000000000 my effective boss margarita simonyan named by the judge i understand that you are working with her and thousands of troops were being prepared from russia to help you out as users. should be well that these are narrow people knew that sean only goal parties were to go or worse try to of the agenda in order to be security to

our. reputation we will continue. i bring our with political tools using our rights in european parliament we will fight very hard and our own we heard you missions we want to share interest group b. and we get on we are our europe and our. crash is european crises. a long dormant volcano sprang into life in iceland on friday spring fountains of larva near the capital reykjavik lava covered an area of around one square kilometer but posed no immediate danger to the local people their option didn't come as a surprise as the country had recorded more than 40000 quakes over the past 3 weeks volcano previously dormant for 6000 years the last time an eruption occurred on the peninsula was 800 years ago. the u. is placed to slash greenhouse gas emissions by

a half over the coming decade but the move will come at a cost european commission chief says the price tag with hundreds of billions of europe we want to take green financing to the next level. because to achieve our 2030 goal 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. the international renewable energy agency is given its own assessment of how much needs to be spent to keep of rising global temperatures below 1.5 degrees by 2050 after the numbers were crunched that figures 33 trillion dollars on top of the currently projected $98.00 trillion in investment so work it out it's not easy but it's an extra trillion dollars a year to fund a global switch from fossil fuels all this at

a time of global underspending when it comes to infrastructure a study backed by the g 20 estimates an extra 15 trillion dollars must be spent on transport mostly in coming years we discussed the climate crisis and government spending plans with a financial journalist and environmental scientist. at the same time that we're spending the money we're creating green jobs so think this is doable it's going to be painful but in the long term it's going to benefit me is going to offset that dominate that's happening to climate change right now and it's getting worse year on year on year where it is having an economic impact and storms through heat waves through we've seen while clients 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 that 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 quality and everything else that's going on right now we really need long term plans all of these things are memories the money we just sensuality to coordinate so i want to see a long term strategy for renewable so that 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 it on 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. remember the sun always shines on t.v. about with more than half an hour.

join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to the world of politics for. i'm sure. i'll see you then. you're watching a special edition of going underground focusing on democracy in europe as in the u.k. boris johnson indicate he'll veto a referendum on scottish independence that would break up the united kingdom the e.u. has arguably been threatening democracy.