germany considered breaking ranks with the european union using russia but the vaccine even if the european regulator doesn't give it the green light. i. hate crime against asians in america by his predecessor but the mainstream media also piling the blame. on t.v. networks in the us the cost of trump's departure from the white house would see it seeing its pure numbers dramatically.

live from moscow this is r.t. international my names you know me on 30 minutes of news and views star. prime minister is safe room will have to make its own decision on whether to use russia's sputnik if it's not approved by the european medicines agency governments right across the e.u. are seeking solutions after a series of setbacks in the blocks vaccine rolled out our europe correspondent peter all of our picks up the story. 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 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 and 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 you are 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 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 and also some 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 i 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'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 sheraton that sputnik 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 barton verdant 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 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 do you to several serious cases of norway want to thoroughly review the situation before 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. u.s. president joe biden and his v.p. camel horace visited an lanter where a gunman opened fire of a number of massage parlors this week killing 8 people 6 of the victims were asian women i've known horace the nuns the atrocities and the vice president also gave her view on what's led to a rise in attacks against america's asian population for the last year we've had people in positions of incredible power scape those scapegoating asian americans

people with the biggest part bits spreading this kind of hate while biden and horace only hinted to the think is to blame the mainstream media has been openly pointing the finger at the previous administration donald trump didn't pull the trigger in atlanta but donald trump certainly was responsible for the year in the fear of the suspicion that exists in great degree in this country much more so than ever in the past. it's not just the shootings in. being late a trump store delving a little deeper into the tears are senior correspondent there it is been a tough few weeks for jew 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 dabbing 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 but 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 i've just been the disaster trumps disaster if you believe biden are trying to survive others say god love of failed order and of axes failed of all eyes the effort to administer the shots failed a set of facts centers and

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 and 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. 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 anti asian violence that has 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 that 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 and graun the democrats created themselves. newly published t.v. ratings in the us appear to show that the post trump white house is well a bit of a turnoff the figures show that c.n.n. lost more than a 3rd of its primetime audience since the former president left office almost 2 and a half 1000000 viewers were tuning in dealey between election day on november 4th and joe biden's an organisation in january after that the numbers plummeted by 36

percent media legal analyst lionel told me the organization had no plan b. after trump left the oval office the presidential sparring had run it's course. 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've been tired day a program you say 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 of 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 but what they are is these are apparatchiks these are sock puppets for the democratic party and everybody knows that but now that there is no trump to attack there is nothing there. this month the british government unveiled a far reaching review of its foreign policy and defense strategy according to the document china a mini russia the biggest threats to london r.t. simon wright has been looking at the finer details.

if you have any doubt the trouble the west is having working out how to deal with china i give to you britain's hold on integrated review of security defense development foreign policy your writing purpose of this review the most comprehensive since the cold war is to make the united kingdom stronger safer and prosperous while standing up. so i've read between the lines of this report which is the most important part and i boil it down for you america is a fading power but britain will still hide behind it whenever it can the united states will be our greatest ally and a uniquely close partner in defense intelligence and security rushers named as the main threat because that was the most effective way of getting funding for more bombs and because china has some questionable autocratic tendencies and all the cash and is pretty much going to rule the world by next year britain will continue

to criticize it a little bit not to want to watch britain unveil this review if you're sitting in beijing must be a frankly bewildering experience there is no question the child with great challenge for a loop in society such as ours but we've also worked with china where that is consistent with our values and interests boris johnson essentially saying that his response to issues like democracy in hong kong or the plight of the week is it will be empty words because that suits britain why essentially because we have a strong relationship with china where the value 1000000000 pounds trying to is the 2nd largest economy in the world he's talking as if no one in china can actually hear him say he's pretty flexible on the old values thing there's a bit of money to be had some of the more confusing detail when on the one hand this review decides that britain needs. the t.

to blow up the world another couple dozen times so commits to a 40 percent increase in its nuclear stockpile while at the same time we're committed to a nuclear arms reduction indeed we believe that china oh should be brought into strategic nuclear arms reduction but you literally just said about what so when britain talks about getting tough on china human rights the values blah blah blah exactly how worried should the capitalist communists in beijing as that review was published the huff post released a recording of a meeting. of the concept we held with his officials he said look we should be prepared to sign trade deals with countries that don't meet the standards of the european convention on human rights and nothing to worry about china probably because every aircraft carrier the west sends over will be another 1000 container ships picking up the i phones for christmas. simon right go ahead president biden

admits that the u.s. is all likely to meet its deadline for pulling troops. it will be next winter the earliest our story and more for you after this short break. is your media a reflection of reality. in a world transformed. what will make you feel safe. isolation community. are you going the right way or are you being led. by. what is true what is faith.

in the world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the depths. for a mate in the shallowness. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. hello again america's deadline for pulling troops out of afghanistan is only likely to be met so ses president biden in fact washington is now considering pushing they may 1st date 6 months down the road all until november the toll up to 2 decade long war on afghanistan civilians has been.

i mean and he would be either my husband was a vendor you're 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 said.

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 education or schooling i want to say no to war there should be no killings anymore no country children have faced mental problems and war affected my children. the for the it says that all i was sitting there with my brothers was on a bomb dropped on my house the bombardment began from years drums my brother was killed as we know no one will be left alive in this world there were a lot of people killed my 3 children were also killed i do monkeys for my country.

this week moscow hosted a meeting of representatives from the afghan government and the taliban aimed at reaching a negotiated settlement and finally a 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 call for a continuation of the peace negotiations which have been ongoing and we spoke to one of the participants of the moscow talks who appears optimistic. expected on 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. for sissies while asia and hopefully this meeting

in clear messages given through this meeting to both sides will have to pass in. it is certainly complementing the door or any future talks which takes place it is e.m.r. jazzing get it and it was the right if what. but if it will lead to 4 mood sites. make the public of afghanistan and the taliban. as long as the stomach the public up on a stand is concerned i can assure you that it was very helpful in that. it will help us. within their country also throughout the negotiations. a massive demonstration is underway in jerusalem against the israeli prime minister with just days to go before yet another election live pictures by the way right now

from jerusalem just coming up to half past 8 leaving sizable crowds a lot of us really flags there are thousands of people really in all flooding the city center calling for benjamin netanyahu to be prosecuted for corruption it is in fact the 39th consecutive week of protests and a lot of social distancing in sight there as well almost all covert restrictions you may know have been lifted in israel with more than half the population vaccinated and benjamin netanyahu will be hoping the rapid inoculation program will boost his chances in the election which will be the 4th in 2 years or to spend small and discuss the run up to choose the former israeli ambassador to the u.n. . palestinian journalist. you can watch the full discussion on the no b.s. podcast on facebook and you tube. false election into use it sounds

crazy to. hope it will be the last this cycle for the new future so the letter now used to live the leading candidate is about the steve about it $35.00 feets out of $120.00 but what's happening is for the 1st time you have a lot of power from the right conservative parties that actually think the same make the prime minister on global issues an economy and social issues but they are not willing to sit with the prime minister one thing for sure the next parliament the next message will be much more conservative than the one we have today a left wing parties some of them will vanish some of their would become a very small party like the label power the used to be the ruling party in the past and now they're all fighting to the threshold so the conservative party would win but it doesn't mean that the prime minister netanyahu will definitely form the next government it's clear that the netanyahu. biggest elephant in the room is the

against him and he's trying every way to get out of it one of the ways he wants to get out of it is to stay as prime minister these really long and not clear on on whether it's sitting prime minister and in fact being being indicted is enough for a member of the cabinet to have to resign and there is no substance to play him for a prime minister so netanyahu has to stay in power so that he can stay out of jail . ok some epic pictures from iceland where a long dormant volcano there sprang into life on friday spewing functions of lava near the capital recock the lava covered an area of iran one square kilometer but pose no immediate danger to locals the volcano had previously south dormant for 6 dollars and years and the last time an eruption took place in that region the gelling capital or valley was $800.00. years ago there's been a lot of earthquakes recently though with the country recording more than 40 this

month alone. skeptics nationalist groups far left supporters have launched on each other in the streets of castle in germany police moved in to push the rival groups apart things spiraled out of control tensions are running high ahead of an expected lockdown extension there. while the netherlands has also seen tempers flare up once more of a $1000.00 restriction security forces in amsterdam used water cannon and police dogs to break up the event was largely peaceful but several arrests were made. and if you'd like to have your say in any of those stories this hour why not leave a comment or 2 on our web page always good to hear what you are thinking there.

one of the worst mass shootings in america was in less vegas in 27 the tragedy exposed a little of the real last vegas. officials are controlled by can see you know the dangers shooting revealed what. really is and now it's part of the stand as sheen is to the american public barely remembers that happens just shows you the power of money in las vegas the powerful showed that true colors when the pandemic hit the most contagious contagion that we've seen in decades and then you have a mayor who doesn't care so here's caroline goodman offering the lives of the vegas residents to be the control group to the shiny. deep indifference to the people lives could have been saved if they were to take an action absolutely. machines do

they use is a money machine is a huge cash register that is ran by people who don't care about people's lives being lost. this is the one business show you can't afford it or in washington coming up the world's 2 largest economy thoughts why in their 1st meeting in the biden era. convene we bring you heated topics of the talks and how things are unfolding splotch them member states are ready to restart their roll out of the astra zeneca back theme we take you inside europe's fight for full vaccination a packed show today. we leave the program with the state of bilateral talks between the united states and china taking place in alaska the 1st since u.s.

president joe biden took office at the meeting top officials from both sides what they hope to accomplish during these talks. ministration is committed to leading with diplomacy to advance the interest of the united states and to strengthen the rules based international order. that system is not an abstraction it helps countries resolve differences peacefully coordinate multilateral efforts effectively and participate in global commerce with the assurance that everyone is following the same rules. today will have an opportunity to discuss key priorities both domestic and global so that china can better understand our administration is intentions and approach will also discuss our concerns with actions by china including and john hong kong taiwan cyber attacks on the united states.