yes of the world of politics. i'm sure. i'll see you then. angry foreign minister becomes the 1st european official to receive brushless vaccine along with 1400000 of his compatriots we hear from the man himself. but sr is not a question of ideology for us is a 1000000 c.v. lives. linger over whether the astra zeneca vaccine causes blood clots to say some patients are canceling their appointments with the jab despite the european medicines agency giving it the all clear. elsewhere the us department of health admits to pressuring brazil not to use the vaccine days before the 1st super infectious brazilian strain of the virus detected in new york. when i

was a child and we had arguments in the courtyards we would say bounces off me and sticks to you but in a bit in their response to joe biden branding something the u.s. president said despite his found that diplomacy is back. very good afternoon to you thanks so much for joining us for the weekly there are. several e.u. leaders are urging the block's medical agency to fast track sputnik the vaccine approval as europe faces up to a 3rd wave of coronavirus. concerning sport with wii and other vaccines i strongly insist that the relevant e.u. bodies issue an authorization for safe vaccines as soon as possible the more vaccines we have the better for. us and also some stuff long as fired the russian

vaccine is concerned i 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 made and i have seen no indication that it will be germany would have to go it alone that is a possibility and this would do companies across europe though it looked like they might break rank with the european regulator there in the month firms in a number of e.u. countries in deals to produce russia's big job but they're all still waiting on the blocks regulator to approve the drug spin u.v. has already been authorized by 46 nations europe slovakia and hungary already rolling out the chap. in greece foreign minister peter c. an't i was among the 1st european officials to receive the sputnik vaccine he's also just announced his country is expected to receive an additional $680000.00 doses of the russian job in the next 2 weeks and he was the 1st 'd to you know to

approve sputnik v. or the 1400000 gallons or since received a 1st dose of the vaccine earlier i spoke with peter c.r. term self and he told me politics should stay out when it comes to saving lives. why exene is not a question of ideology for us is a matter of saving lives and if we had not contracted the chinese and russian vaccine we could have saved the health care and their health and the lives of many hungry and the hungry our national regulator has approved the emergency use authorization for nukes so i have no concern i was the one. that asked by our government to negotiate with the russians on the ration of our purchasing. i have started going to going with a minister a month when we used to hold back at the end of october before i got real actually

and after a long series of negotiations of we were able to sign our contract we share a lot in accelerating the vaccination in hungary you said it's rightly more than 1400000 now today this morning even more than 1500000 have already been vaccinated scandinavian countries are extending a phrase on the use of the astra zeneca kovacs saying despite the european medicines agency concluded on thursday that the drug was quote safe and effective taking it so development is i think shell of a bit scary. several scandinavian countries still unsure about losing this vaccine but start with finland which has now suspended the use of the astra zeneca jab why they think best against 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 would want to thoroughly review the situation before make a conclusion while blood clots eye is the issue that's been discussed over and over nots initially will be the main was investigating over the last week o. say 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 the 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'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 know a know how they made it there is a nurse she died and on top of that the people who died because of it so i don't

really know if it really works or not but 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 approve them so the idea that countries are now questioning want to double check the figures the investigations over this issue the vaccines. really does raise that question of trust and at a time when we're now being told 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 the boxing i would prefer it to have one they really are big issues that need to be resolved. new york has reported its 1st case of the highly

contagious brazil strain of covert after the us health department publicly boasted it trying to dissuade brazil from using bursaspor very vaccine a move branded by the kremlin unprecedented and harsh because the it has more we've all heard the bat back to deals to secure that scene shipment countries trampling each other to get those precious jabs these says the 1st star we've heard of backdoor deals to deny people a vaccine the u.s. 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 couvade deaths worldwide are in brazil and these 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 v has come out and said what any reasonable person already knows this is a pandemic that is threatening and killing people equally these. as 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 coronavirus 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. despite his admission in the report the us health department says it can't comment on vaccines not approved by the f.d.a. and can't pressure countries from using drugs they've authorized themselves. on tuesday joe biden gave an interview in which he was asked where the russia's president was a killer he answered yes and found that putin would pay the price for alleged interference in u.s. elections moscow responded by calling its u.s. envoy back to moscow for crisis talks on the state of relations with washington and he's done you hawkins has a 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 child's 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. and 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 growing out of who. know that the president gave a direct answer to a direct question about aside from threats through paying a price i don't l. cing new sanctions hailed as a new approach to dealing with moscow the president's relationship and this administration is relationship with the russians will be very different from what

we've seen over the last 4 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 1st 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 him 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. when we judge people or other nations we look into a mirror and we see ourselves we impose on others what we see in ourselves when i was a child and we had arguments in the courtyard we would say bounces off me and sticks

to yours and it's not just the children saying the meaning is very deep tit for tat accusations or 3 moscow and washington go back decades but with biden making it personal putin made it clear he wouldn't stand for his counterpart being a moral judge. regarding the american establishment the ruling class its identity was formed in difficult circumstances that are well known the colonization of the american continent by europeans involved the extermination of the local population it was a genocide in modern terms a genocide of the indian tribes this was followed by a long brutal period of slavery slave holding it was extremely cruel and all of this is endured through history and affects the development of the united states to this day otherwise well with the black lives mass movement have come from. could have cited any number of events u.s. global military interventions political meddling support for dubious armed groups

and regimes through illustrate his 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 boyd and to continue the discussion in person in an uncensored live online broadcast something that may be unprecedented in such high level talks yeah but you put a luxury to but i want to invite president biden to continue our discussion on the condition that it's in the form of live broadcast online 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 the

problem is will take further silence as i know and while we 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. authorities on america's southern border raising the alarm over a record number of migrants will their local mayors concerns after this break. is your media a reflection of reality. in a world transformed. what will make you feel safe.

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government to step in as the region faces a record influx of migrants u.s. border patrol it's struggling to provide covert secure shelter for thousands of people america 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 cities have seen yet 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 doubts about the ability of the authorities to cope with the situation on the us mexico border amid the pandemic the bottom illustrated has deployed the disaster agency fema to deal with the situation and despite it being beyond their remit there chris rigs are going to believe the federal government wasn't prepared for such

a surge in migrant numbers. there is definitely the concern of coded yet how that is going to impact my community i have a large number of seniors and elders that. this could really affect so we're hoping that border patrol 'd will start testing before they release people were wanting to see what their health records are so that we can ensure that our our citizens are protected this is a crisis simple as that and i'm putting none of this on border patrol i put it strictly on the federal government as far as the current administration needs to step up and so we're 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 has been attacked in montreal while demonstrating against giving

puberty to children with gender identity issues he sells them film the assault on his fun show several people approach him demanded he leave the have included a transfer he was there for the broken homage to one of the attackers were painted to hit him with a traffic is how he described the incident. what i do i just go out on the street i have conversations with people about the purity blocking drug because the media are cute 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. 1 woman director men were just on me i had about one second noticed a refined on me that maybe dying $1000.00 children cannot consent to puberty blockers it seems to me like a 100 percent it's a premeditated act i knew i was there and they came to get me. the issue surrounds the administration of drugs that stop the onset of puberty by blocking certain

hormones the physical effects eventually wear off when the child stops taking them but there are still concerns about the lasting impact puberty blockers are 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's no magic time machine to get those 5 years that those years of development are gone and studies also that doesn't even kick right into gear as soon as you come up and it takes time for the body to adjust and get going again so what's happening is we have all sorts of young adults now in their twenty's who are transitioning and canada is going 100 miles an hour in the wrong direction because we have political people using that 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 that conflict millions of civilians displaced by 2015 almost half the country was occupied by the islamic state terrorist group which is when the russian military decided to put its weight behind the syrian government says that russia has become an integral part of the peace process helping to broker and monitor last year's ceasefire agreement as well as to supply humanitarian aid to the syrian people and sees me as a national reports from syria about russia's role in the country. let me i mean russian air base here and fear is northern province of what track it takes up a relatively small piece of lens but it helped win the whole country back how i'll show you follow me.

i. was. taken by surprise that the government our forces were further defeated predicted it was a very important moment then russian abby ation played a very important role might see one of the name changed was among the 1st pilots to come here back in 2015 with wildstorm group in 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 the mission has been since the start in the 1st 24 hours with the help of russian navy ation the syrian army managed to

take back religious and push the enemy back 70 kilometers. per hour. from amy may or may started 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 for peaceful syria and the reason sense of real kong here. was a week on the base is unique in. 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. they cannot exceed to ation 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 helped liberate territories and supplied us with wheat. rice i remember the streets in the old city of the capital damascus empty we show up some galleries shut down and fear in the air that it could be shelled 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 or bread so many of them a jobless but they say the police the skies evolve are now clear re from the. from damascus in syria. americans love. this was a fundamental part of how our political leadership and our country a large understood the bargain you get a hoe and then you know rebel right that's the things you don't revolt if you have a stake in the system. the really interesting to dial it back and think about

the longer deeper history housings man in the united states not just that old question of the american dream but the bigger question of who the dream has been for. l. look forward to talking to you all that technology should work for people. i robot must obey the orders given by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the 1st law your identification we should be very careful about our personal intelligence and the point obesity is to create trust then fear. might take on various shots and with artificial intelligence we'll summon the demon . a robot must protect its own existence and excuse me.