so join us in the. forum 8 in the shallows. if you consider breaking ranks with the european union. even if the european doesn't give it approval. to british controlled territories reject the government. for processing. humane and ridiculous. that the rise in hate crimes against asians in america. with the mainstream media. for all the country's woes.

it is something they often here in moscow welcome to your weekend headlines on r.t. international on research. italy's new prime minister says it 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 that's off the trust in the astra zeneca shot in europe has been shaken following recent safety. mario draghi he's not been long in the job as 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 18 year up 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 an act outside of the use one for all and all for one per curiam and program if it gets

what italy needs let's order sputnik v. and see what happens if europe in 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 certify 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 in fact 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 fussin also seen him stuff as fire the russian vaccine is concerned 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 new indications. it will be germany would have to go it alone that is a possibility and this what it 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 on demand is the following we as the german red cross are 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 and 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 political reasons that would dictate selective behavior and my impression is that at least here in germany there is 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 charité 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 are reports coming out here in germany that a facility in the book was being prepared as a potential site to produce sputnik v. in europe 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 herself it's been a tough week for astra zeneca 20 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 you'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 do you to several serious cases and norway would want to thoroughly

review the situation before we make a conclusion there is a real mixed 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 staring down the barrel of a 3rd wave of covert 19. the british government plan to process asylum seekers and overseas territories has sparked anger gibraltar and the man are believed to be 2 possible options to which the migrants could go to before potentially being sent back to their original countries local authorities however say they want nothing to do with the scheme though boris johnson is endorsing and defending the idea. the objective here is to is to save life and avert human misery because people are crossing the channel who are being food 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 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 or 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. 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 has 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 spoke with a lecturer in migration policy at the london school of economics of mr joseph downing who believes such an offshore processing plan is misguided. he's referencing people trafficking in 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 we process the all of manager process will save lives about that i'm highly dubious 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 if she needs any 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. president joe biden and his v.p. come visit it at lancer which recently saw mass shootings at a number of mass hours policy in which 8 people were killed a 6th of the victims were asian women biden and harris denounced the atrocities while the vice president also 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 pulpits spreading this kind of hate while a bi manhours only hinted at who they think is the blame the mainstream media has been openly pointing the finger at the trump administration donald trump didn't pull the trigger in atlanta but donald trump certainly was responsible for the anger in the fear in 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 trump's door as artie's now reports it is being 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 and 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 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 else that is been a disaster trumps disaster if you believe biden are trying to survive others say god love a failed order and of axes failed of all the lies 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 newest operation warp speed last year under which the development of a vaccine its production and distribution were carried out other than precedented 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 and the asian violence that has really had its ugly head over the last year on the one that had 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. led 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 has also arisen 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 heap 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 and graunt the democrats created themselves are still ahead if you're on the program on the president biden admits the u.s. is on likely to meet trump's promise deadline for pulling troops out of afghanistan but that story and that much more after a very short break. the

world is driven by a dream shaped by the curse of those. who dares thinks. we dare to ask. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy foundation let it be an arms race based on often spearing dramatic to follow only i'm going to exist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk.

good to have you with us today recently published t.v. ratings. in america appear to show that the post trump white house is well a bit of a turn off the figures show that c.n.n. has lost almost half of its primetime audience following the former president's departure from office now almost 2 and a half 1000000 viewers were tuning in daily between election day on november the 4th and biden's inauguration day in january after that the numbers dropped significantly down to 47 percent in the key demographic of 25 to 54 year olds and we spoke with the media and legal analyst lionel who believes donald trump was a golden goose when it came to the 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 and say it wasn't that fantastic did you notice the show to 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

they 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 but 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 there. president joe biden has admitted it will be tough for the u.s. to meet its deadline for pulling american troops out of afghanistan and with his administration are considering a 6 month extension of their presence in the country earlier donald trump had promised to withdraw the remaining 12000 troops by the 1st of may and the toll of the war in afghanistan civilians of course has been immense.

i mean in the with the other kids my husband was a vendor selling street food and then after hung around a bag 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 and 170 people eventually my neighbor came and told me my husband had been killed in a suicide bombing it is 15 years since they came and i'm living here because of my children i sat for my husband but there was no news about him dress as until widows who are living west to me every morning when i am going at the others living in west situations than me i become very sick.

and poor 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 daughter in law a 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 our children have faced mental problems and war affected my children. the it says the talk of i was sitting there with my brothers was on a bomb dropped on my house in the bombardment again for 8 years drums my brother was killed as we know no one will deliver to live in this war there were a lot of people killed my 3 children were also killed the month before michael. earlier this week moscow hosted a meeting including representatives of the afghan government and the taliban aiming

at reaching any go shitted settlement and comprehensive cease fire russia the us china and pakistan acted as mediators the talks resulted in a statement urging the taliban to refrain from a spring offensive the parties also called for a continuation of the peace negotiations in doha we spoke to one of the participants of the moscow talks who says real progress has been made our expectation was that when the talks started to doha violence will be deduced big deal that has not happened as of yet. unfortunately dialogue continues in all the major players are asking for association of violation and hopefully this meeting in clear messages given through this meeting to both sides would help us in moving in that i did action it is certainly

complementing that doha or any future talks which takes place it is reenergizing it and it was that i thought i had that right time but eventually for both sides this law makes the public of afghanistan and the taliban as long as the islamic republic of afghanistan is concerned i can assure you that it was very helpful in that. it will it will help us. within the country also throughout the negotiations. his loss of parliamentary immunity jail and alleged ties with editor in chief well these are just a few of the things the. member of european parliament speaks about in the latest episode of oxys going underground pushing what was a key figure in independence referendum 2017 which was ruled illegal by spain

forcing him to flee the country he became an m.e.p. in 29 but earlier this month the european parliament stripped him of his parliamentary immunity you can watch the full interview on our channel throughout the day for now is a quick. tell me what their removal of your a immunity from prosecution means might clear a threat against one of the bases of her european democracy. consistent trending fundamental right human values that are up for a while you were in jail in schleswig. what did it personally feel like no charge that spain has presented are not acceptable you know western democracy work what kind of crime used to mission or 1000000000 my effective boss margarita simonyan named by the judge a understand that you are working with her and thousands of troops were being

prepared from russia to help you and i can tell you. to be well that these are narrow people knew that song political parties were to go or worse try to of out on the agenda in order to be security to attack our. reputation we will continue. with political tools using our rice in european parliament we will fight very hard and our once we heard the mission we want to share with the rest group eons we got to once we are going to europe and our. crises european crises. it is r.t. international a long dormant volcano sprung into life in iceland on friday spewing thousands of lava near the capital of reykjavik above a covered an area of about one square kilometer but didn't pose any immediate danger to locals there option though didn't come as

a surprise as the country has recorded more than 40000 earthquakes just over the past 3 weeks the volcano had previously thought dormant for 6000 years and the last time an eruption took place on the peninsula was $800.00. years ago. and we are back in about 32 minutes with more of your weekend well headlines here with. boris yeltsin. go back and look at your history. all the darky flourished under a guy who is barely able to walk down the street here we have in the u.s. somebody is cognitively impaired that's pretty common wisdom over seeing the rise

of american oligarchies assisted by 0 percent interest rates that allow for the cup the crowds to all means of production. always be polite never engage with a negative a good or confrontational also. don't get into any conversation or start answering questions just ask for an attorney. to survive in the territories you're going to be. definitely don't want to be going to trial in the jumpsuit on cops. you're more likely to walk free if you're rich and guilty or if you're poor and. you've got 2 eyes 2 ears and one mouth. so you should be seen in here and a whole lot more in your sand if you don't take that advice easy going to dig

yourself a hole. imagine origen's in 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 itself after german prison the man much you gotta learn here in spain regards as its president as it is immunity from prosecution for calling a referendum on independence revokes called wisdom or joins me now from brussels thanks so much president for coming on the show the politicization of life and death here in britain is more about the corona virus vaccine and how the e.u.

has politicized that for you personally it is the politicization of democracy by the e.u. arguably that is a life or death matter just tell me what their removal of your immunity from prosecution means well thank you very much for inviting me might create a threat against one of the bases of her european democracy. finding fundamental right human values that are up and when a member of european parliament. is pretty equally prosecuted and the parliament house to defend his immunity well that is a very bad time to share a direct. and that is not in the frame of the law. and i don't know mine's flat you know moral authority. to be in union to teach others who.