in the headlines this week doubts linger over whether the astra zeneca vaccine calls his blood clots is to say that some patients are canceling appointments for the job despite the european medicines agency giving it the clear. the museum. the pressure in brazil not to use russia spreading the vaccine shortly after the 1st brazilian strain of corona virus is detected in new york. and the u.s. russia relations had a new low after president joe biden brands his russian counterpart a. good morning to you thanks so much for joining us this sunday morning you're watching

the weekly. scandinavian countries are extending a freeze on the use of the astra zeneca vaccine despite the european medicines agency including thursday that the drug was quote safe and effective taking you through developments is anti shala dubiously. several scandinavian countries still unsure about losing this vaccine that start with finland which has now suspended the use of the astra zeneca jab why they think best against shoe cases of potential blood clots on top of that we know the norway denmark and sweden they're all holding back from restarting their programs all of them still have concerns about issues surrounding astra zeneca and say that they going to carry out their own investigations now due to several serious cases and no way we want to thoroughly review the situation before we make a conclusion well blood clots eye is the issue that's been discussed over and over

nots initially will think e.m. a was investigating over the last week are saying but there have been of the much more serious effects that some say to astra zeneca let's have a look now at some of those cases. now the a.m.a. of course did carry out extensive investigations into these possible side effects

and what they said at their press conference on thursday is that the vaccines benefit in protecting people from coronavirus related deaths or hospitalisations continued to outweigh the possible links as a result of taking the astra zeneca vaccine and that's why. they reapproved to rubber stamp it once again for use but it's not just countries nordic countries who are still querying the use of astra zeneca here in france the country's health authority has now given new advice about the job saying that can only be used for those over the age of 55 now you might wonder why that seems so odd but if i go back just a couple weeks ago being told by authorities here in france that astra zeneca shouldn't be used with those in older age groups so it does feel for many is if the new advice is a complete u. turn and it is leaving many people questioning why well the reason is because the

may also on thursday suggested that they were a possible increased risk of blood clots for those under the age of 55 if they had the astra zeneca job. i don't trust the spanx an adult i don't know that it's really true what they say with the media would no longer know what to think that. the vaccine is brand new i mean we don't know the side effects. those who died but i don't want to take the risk so i'm waiting a little longer. you never know how they made it so there is a diet and on top of that there are people who died because of it so i don't really know if it really works or not. there's also now the question as to what this means for the ear may itself we now have countries across the european union who are deciding that it's rubber stamping of us just isn't quite good enough let's not

forget that the e.u. may is the scientific body for the whole of the european union this is the party that looks at medicines and decides if it's to improve them so the idea that countries and now questioning want to double check the figures the investigations over this is. the vaccines really does raise that question of trust and at a time when we're now being told that there are not enough vaccines to prevent a 3rd could be 1000 wave here in europe and many people may now be saying you know actually i don't want that proxy i would prefer to have that would read your big issues that need to be resolved. so i do was give reporting that i was over in the united kingdom the astra zeneca vaccine rollout has been much faster than in the u. but a british nurse told us many people there are still reluctant to get the job people who are concerned about the speed at which the vaccinations we develop so that's

now compounded with tools and concerns around blood clots in the connection with these these brain blood clots that can develop or they you know this is fission they may defend after this particular vaccination i had a conversation yesterday a patient who actually said that he would not be getting that one and he has now gone on to a different brand of vaccination because he's lost confidence in that one. the only problem is the boris johnson said he plans to take the astra zeneca job and the people to do the same but you know it better to getting things members of the public are right to be cautious but i think did the concerns are warranted as we are because we don't really want to be gambling with people's lives you know it's not and there was a lot of talk around this speed at which the facts in the nation develop so there is a lot of concerns about how you know how safe are the facts and now be it's you know

i just i just hope that every some think if. several e.u. leaders are urging the box medical agency to fast track vaccine approval is europe faces a 3rd wave of coronavirus. concerning sputnik v. and other vaccines i strongly insist that the relevant issue an authorization safe vaccines as soon as. vaccines that we have the office of just us and also send him stuff as fired their russian vaccine is concerned i have held the view for some time that we should use each vaccine that is approved by the european magistrate's agence singh but if no such european order were they not and i have seen no indication that it will be general you would have to go it alone if that is the most ability and this what it would do. companies across here or they might break ranks with the european regulator this month firms in a number of e.u.

countries and deals to produce precious but big job they're all still waiting on the blocks regulator to approve the drug company b. has already been authorized by 46 nations and europe's hungary and slovakia are already rolling out the job we spoke to the head of the berlin branch of the german red cross who says politics should stay out of a decision to approve vaccines just. as the head of the berlin branch of the german red cross i had 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 answer and the only serious way to fight cope with 19 and my demands on 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 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 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 chain. 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 sherry take that splitting v.a. can be trusted and that if the a and relevant departments fail to approve it they will lose people's trust i demanded negotiations with vaccine manufacturers around the world and non ideological decisions we need science based solutions for me this means that if scientific results confirm that negotiations with sputnik the can be conducted then they need to be conducted immediately unfortunately there are currently not enough vaccines in germany vaccination centers doctors pharmacists have capacities that would make it possible to vaccinate more people biggest problem at the present time

is the shortage of vaccines try out germany and throughout europe many germans look at for example great britain america and israel with strange feelings they see that many more people have already been vaccinated there than here in germany although the biotech vaccine which is in high demand around the world was developed in germany so unfortunately there are currently not enough vaccines in germany therefore we do not vaccinate the population is quickly as has been happening in other countries. new york has reported its 1st case of the highly contagious brazil strain of covert to the us health department publicly boasted that it tried to dissuade brazil from using the vaccine and they branded the by the kremlin precedented and harsh artie's rock as the it has more. we've all heard the bad back to deals to secure that scene shipment countries trampling each other to get those

precious jabs these seas the 1st star we've heard of back door deals to deny people a vaccine the us department of health health and human services boosting that it had denied hundreds of millions of brazilians a jab. the office of global affairs used diplomatic relations in the americas region to mitigate efforts by states including cuba venezuela and russia who are working to increase their influence in the region to the detriment of u.s. safety and security examples include using the office of global affairs health a touchy office to persuade brazil to reject the russian copied 19 vaccine and this what is essentially a grand perversion of simple human decency and moral values they argue that brazilians vaccinating themselves with a russian vaccine is apparently a threat to u.s. security they are explaining how they just say that it is let me put that in

perspective for you we will see and hear of the daily death tallies right so one in 5 of those deaths are happening right now in brazil 20 percent of all qubit deaths worldwide are in brazil and needs people a boosting that they help prevent inoculations in brazil with one of the objectives the and scientifically proven most efficient vaccines in the world these are the same people who claim that lives in vaccines are above politics and accused russia of undermining inoculation efforts it is very clear that russia is up to its all tricks. and in doing so is potentially putting people at risk by spreading disinformation about vaccines well darden u.s.

department of health and human services who feel safe and your organization behind sputnik the has come out and said what any reasonable person already knows this is a pandemic that is threatening and killing people equally these. is a threat to mankind it is above politics saving and we're talking here about millions of lives is paramount but the degree of cynicism and double standards here is astonishing see when it's about saving american lives they'll take all the help that they can get remember the russian planes carrying aid to new york last year oh they accepted that no threat to national security there apparently but brazilians vaccinating themselves with sputnik god forbid no no no america current allow brazilians to do that some western states are trying not only to

politicize the humanitarian aspect of the fight against corona virus but also to take advantage of the pandemic to punish governments they don't like i'm not sure gree with the russian foreign minister yes they are politicizing vaccination politicizing lives that's obvious but i'm not entirely sure that the countries that the us doesn't like that it's them that have been punished it's the people that they're friends with brazilians who will potentially not receive a life saving job so we're fishelson washington can go to sleep at night feeling good and safe but despite its admission in the report the us health department says it cannot comment on vaccines not approved by the f.d.a. and cannot pressure countries from using drugs they've or the rise themselves.

and she's a joe biden gave an interview in which he was us where the russia's president was a killer and said yes and found him a putin would pay the price for alleged interference in u.s. elections putin then called for open talks on teesta new corkins has the story. the lowest point since the cold war that sol russia u.s. relations have been described across the board over the last few years but every new u.s. administration has a chance to take a fresh look at things build some bridges at least try not to add to the tension and certain joe biden you know vladimir putin you think is a killer. or do so what price must he pay but pray she's going to pay well you'll see shortly if there was a book on the presidential diplomacy one o one the very 1st page may well say don't call your counterpart a soulless murderer in your 1st couple of months in office that could make talks over the next 4 years slightly awkward for the kremlin saying they're now hoping

for the best but preparing for the worst in terms of relations but international diplomacy can be like a game of poker biden went all chips in no regrets the present by regret going over who. knows the president gave a direct answer to a direct question about aside from threats through paying a price and announcing new sanctions hailed as a new approach to dealing with moscow the president's relationship and this it ministrations relationship with the russians will be very different from what we've seen over the last 3 years and we've already seen evidence of that the boy administration took around 2 months to announce new sanctions targeting russia what old front took around the same time when he came to office back in 2017 to announce his sanctions against russian companies in connection with iran north korea syria nonproliferation act the 1st of many so hardly a new approach there anyway the target of biden's killer comments took them

surprisingly well sidestepping the attacks with a restrained response. because only. i would wish you good health i'm not joking i mean it secondly i want to say that in the history of every country there are many tragic and dramatic events but will not judge people eat or other nations we look into a mirror when you see ourselves we impose on others what we see in ourselves. but when i was a child and we had arguments in the courtyard we would say pounds of me and sticks to your way and it's not just the children saying the meaning is very gloomy tit for tat accusations that 3 moscow and washington go back decades but with biden making it personal person made it clear he wouldn't stand for his counterpart being a moral judge. regarding the american establishment is truly class its identity and difficult circumstances that are well known in the colonisation of the american

continent by u.s. planes involved the extermination of the local population it was a genocide anymore he terms a genocide of the indian tribes that this was followed by a long brutal period of slavery slave holding it was extremely cruel and all of this is endured through history in affects the development of the united states to this day otherwise well because black lives mass movement have come from. birth and could have cited any number of events u.s. global military interventions political meddling support for dubious armed groups and regimes through illustrators wider point look at yourselves and your actions before criticizing others the white house acknowledged nobody's perfect. the president believes that one of the greatest attributes of the united states is our honest self reflection and our constant striving for progress and there's always more work to do in this round putting the shows to up the ante making

a brave offer to biden to continue the discussion in person in an uncensored live online broadcast something that may be unprecedented in such high level talks which would luxury to president bush i want to invite president biden to continue our discussion on the condition that it's in the film we live it would cost on like you but even with so far the white house has avoided rising to the challenge of making history refusing to commit or comment on the offer i don't have anything to report to you in terms of a future meeting the president of course be in georgia tomorrow and quite busy travel in the said will take further silence as a no and while they can't know what goes on behind the scenes of international diplomacy if biden's early days in office were a game of poker it seems this hand would go to his perceived adverse story probably not the effect he wanted to make with his initial comments. local authorities along america's southern border of calling on the government to

step in as the region faces a record in place of migrants u.s. border patrol struggling to provide covert secure shelter for thousands of people the murder of a town in arizona says the crisis is unprecedented. this is really opening up a pandora's box in our community we did not see the covert crisis nowhere near what some of the other arizona cities have seen. we were hoping to keep it that way unfortunately it doesn't look with them dropping these migrants in our community untested. southern states including arizona and alabama have borne the brunt of the migrant influx of recent polls suggesting there is growing doubt about the ability of authorities to cuz with the situation on the us mexico border made the pandemic the budget ministrations deployed the disaster agency fema to do with the situation despite being beyond that remit chris riggs again believes the federal government

wasn't prepared for such as the migrant numbers. there is definitely the concern of. how that is going to impact my community i have a large number of seniors and elders. this could really affect so we're hoping that border patrol will start testing before they release people were wanting to see what their health records are so that we can ensure our our citizens our project this is a crisis simple as that and i'm none of this on border patrol i put this strictly on the federal government as far as the current administration needs to step up and 3rd going to offer this they need to do their job they need to have a plan in place obviously there was no plan. a canadian activist is being attacked in montreal while demonstrating against

giving puberty blockers to children with gender identity issues chris alstom filmed the assault on his face and see if it shows several people approaching him and demand he leaves the area and call him a trance 5. it's not for that broken homage to one of the attack is repeated to fit him the traffic. is how he described the incident. what i do i just go out on the street i have conversations with people about the future to blocking drugs because the media refuse to report on what's going on out of nowhere from the road and i think from my left on the sidewalk about i don't know how many people 567 people one woman the referee man they were just i mean i only had about one second notice the signs off me but i wear the sign one time that children cannot consent to puberty blockers it seems to me like a 100 percent it's a premeditated attack they knew i was there and they came to get me the. whole issue surrounds the administration of drugs to stop the onset of puberty by

blocking certain hormones the physical effects eventually wear off when the child stops taking the but there are still concerns about the lasting impact people to block is having on the young if a child goes on puberty blocking drugs from the age of $12.00 to $17.00 and then they come off them. there is no magic time machine to get those 5 years that those years of development are gone and studies also that the current system doesn't even rate and year is going to come up and it takes time for the body to adjust and get going again what's happening is we have all sorts of young adults now in their twenty's who are each transitioning and canada is going 100 miles an hour in the wrong direction because we have political people using this as a wedge issue to achieve their political and so they try to say that if we don't want to give it puberty blocking drugs that somehow we're against the algae be unity but this has nothing to do with that there's no thinking involved in it they

just oh you want to be the other gender ok here you go we're going to start puberty and you know. monday marks 10 years since the outbreak of war in syria hundreds of thousands of people have been killed in the conflict and millions of civilians displaced 2015 was half the country was occupied by the islamic state terror group which is when the russian military decided to put its weight behind the syrian government. has become an integral part of the peace process helping broker a moment a last ceasefire agreement as well as supplying humanitarian aid to the syrian people wanted me for national reports from syria about russia's role in the country . let me mean russian air base here and fear is northern colvin so what parker takes up a relatively small piece of land but it helped win the whole country back how i'll show you follow me.

was. taken by declaring that the government our forces went further defeated predicted it was a very important moment then russian abby ation played a very important role see what over the name changed was among the 1st pilots to come here back in 2015 with wildstorm global 2015 things were close to the point of no return the country could have ceased to exist our forces played a crucial role in the conflict. to give you an understanding of how intensive to mission has been since the start

in the 1st 24 hours with the help of rush inebriation the syrian army managed to take back 8 inches and push the enemy back 70 kilometers. from a maimed air base that it was several tense in the middle of nowhere headed grew to a real town with streets and boulevards a church and a dream cafes and restaurants bakeries and beauty saloon it is a symbol hall peaceful syria and the reason a sense of real kong here. the base is unique in its location climatic conditions speed of deployments and the missions it carries out. but ending the war is just the 1st step in bringing live in syria back to normal

had a decade of crisis has left too many scars and russian support goes far beyond military victories in the last 5 years russia has helped 2000000 syrian refugees return home main roads were finally cleared and reopened russian medics have also treated around 130000 syrian citizens the defense ministry says nearly 3000 humanitarian operations delivered tons of food water medicine and basic supplies for series civilian population. it's going slowly but life is beginning to fill the streets of syria's cities once again. the suburbs are no i have spent half of my life and war we've been through

a lot we have become patient i feel old even though i look young people have to work harder to cover their expenses and support their families life has become more difficult when we are stronger and ready for any outcome we have to keep on living despite all the difficulties. the economic situation is there are difficult we cannot provide our children with the most basic necessities clubs not books for study i want things to see read the way they used to be. given that war has affected everything life has gotten worse the russians played the biggest role in the crisis they helped us greatly made our lives easier during the economic blockade was helpful. every territory then supplied us with wheat and rice and i remember this street in the old city of the capital damascus empty we show ups and galleries shut down and fear in the air that it could be shelved at any moment and it was the same gloomy mood basically all over the country 10 years old and locals

still spend hours queuing for fuel of bread so many of them a jobless but they say the police the skies above are now clear brief an ocean on the team from damascus in syria. always be polite never engage with baited or confrontational. get into any conversation or start answering questions just ask.

if you're rich. you got. one mouth. so you should be seen in here and a whole lot more if you don't take that advice. you know. like any other. basis about. the scientific basis or about scenes are given that. shouldn't be interfering with.