hungary's foreign minister becomes the 1st european official to receive. the vaccine along with 1400000 of his compatriots on the program we hear from them himself. question of ideology. is a matter of saving my. blood clots as you say some patients are counseling appointments for the job despite the european medicines agency giving. us health admits to pressuring. days before the 1st super infectious brazilian strain of corona virus was detected

in. the us when i was a child and we had all. we would say. and sticks to give. him. something the u.s. president said despite his. welcome to the weekly here on r.t. international we're running down the top stories of the week welcome to. the blocks medical agency to foster. vaccine approval as europe faces a 3rd wave of coronavirus. consenting v. and other vaccines i strongly insist that the relevant issues. for safe vaccines as soon as possible the more vaccines we have the better. long

as 5 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 majesty's agence seen that if a new such european or do an 8 and i have seen new indication that it will be german you would have to go into a load that is a possibility and this were to would do companies across europe look like they might break ranks with the european regulator earlier this month firms in a number of e.u. countries signed deals to produce rushers sputnik be job but they're all still waiting on the blocks regulator to approve the drug smuggling if he has already been authorized by $46.00 nations and europe slovakia and hungary are already rolling out the injection. now hungary's foreign minister peter so your daughter was among the 1st european officials to receive the russian sputnik the vaccine is also just announced that his country is expected to receive an additional 680000

doses of the russian job over the next 2 weeks hungary was the 1st e.u. nation to approve sputnik we now more than 1400000 hunger areas have since received a 1st dose of the vaccine earlier we spoke to peter soon after himself and he told us that politics should stay out when it comes to saving lives. that scene 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 the health and the lives of many hungry and the hungry a national regulator has approved the emergency use authorization for use 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 to negotiations with minister month when we used to hold back at the end of october before i got real actually and after a long series of negotiations and we were able to sign our contract we share a lot in accelerating the vaccination in hungary you said it's rightly more don't want point 4000000 now they just mourning even more and more than 1500000 have already been vaccinated or meantime a scandinavian countries are extinct extending out a free on the use of the astra zeneca covert vaccine that's despite the european medicines agency concluding on thursday that the drug was quote safe and effective on taking us through developments now here's a tease shot of 2 points. 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 would want to thoroughly review the situation before make a conclusion while blood clots eye is the issue that's being discussed over and over nots initially will think the main was investigating over the last week are saying but there have been of the 'd 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 year 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. 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 this is a mystery you never know how they made it there is a nurse she died 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 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 that there were not enough vaccines to prevent a 3rd couvade 900 wave here in europe and many people may now be saying you know

actually i don't want that rock scene i would prefer to have one they really are big issues that need to be resolved. well the new york has reported its 1st case of the highly contagious brazil strain of covert after the us health department publicly boasted that it tried to dissuade brazil from using russia's sputnik the vaccine it's a move branded by the kremlin quote unprecedented and. what i was we've all heard the bat back to deals to secure the shipment of countries trampling each other to get those precious jobs these says the 1st star we've heard of back door 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 to see 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 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 don 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 knew this is a pandemic that is threatening and killing people equally this is. the threat to

mankind it is above politics saving and we're talking here about medians 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 new threats 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 i entirely agree with the russian foreign minister yes they are politicizing vaccination

politicising lives that's obvious but i'm not entirely sure that the countries that the u.s. doesn't like that it's them that are being punished it's the people that they're friends with brazilians who will potentially not receive a lifesaving job so we're fishelson washington can go to sleep at night feeling good and safe well despite its admission in the report the us health department says it cannot comment on vaccines not approved by the american f.d.a. also kind of pressure countries from using the drugs they have authorized themselves. it was on tuesday that joe biden gave an interview in which the president was a he. and the vladimir 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. with washington and much more on this story

right now with. 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

calling. you know that the president gave a direct answer to a direct question that's 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 administration's 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 allow this 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 court yard we would say bounces off me and sticks to years 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 person 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 life mass movement have come from britain 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 now on the south reflection and the 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 parson in an uncensored live online broadcast something that may be unprecedented in such high level talks which would lose weight 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 travel in the said will take further silence as i know 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. authorities on america's a southern border are raising the alarm over a record number of amassing migrants we hear a local mayors concerns and the mix of the rest of your weekly stories after a very short break.

the sputnik b. day just been published the same the african scene we've seen you know good data from the back so you have some song data from the chinese but it seems like any other vaccine of the day the whole is all you can call a malign the basis for that statement given the scientific i would say you of the people you know the scientific basis for choosing the vaccines are given the thumbs up from a scientific and medical point of view we shouldn't be interfering with the process if it's all about. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. dramatic. the only move. i don't see it. will be very critical. to see.

you with us today sacrificing human rights at the altar of trade that's what human rights activists have accused the u.k. foreign secretary doing after a leaked recording revealed him saying the u.k. should strike trade deals with nations even if they have a poor human rights record. i believe we ought to be trading liberally around the world if we restrict it to countries with the european convention on human rights level standards of human rights we're not going to do many trade deals with the growth markets of the future with the foreign secretary dominic robb admitting that trading prospects actually could be done with the so-called enemies human rights

groups and now hitting back accusing the government of gross hypocrisy this apparent willingness to sacrifice human rights at the altar of trade is shocking but certainly unsurprising it fits a depression pattern on human rights from these government trade is obviously important to all nations but the foreign secretary shouldn't be thrown human right defenders to the wharf like this while the government has actually defended dominic rob's comment saying that this leaked order far was actually clipped and actually distorted the truth but we've also heard from the opposition party the labor party hitting out saying that dominic rob's comments behind closed doors actually completely undermined their public statements at the same time but it's not just dominic rob who has been accused long before of turning a blind eye to human rights abuses but saying something else publicly make good on a pledge bringing to force the united kingdom's 1st thomas human rights sanctions regime which gives us the power to impose sanctions on the on those involved in the very worst human rights abuses right around the world so when it comes to the big

security and human rights challenges of our time we need this our united nations to forge a bold new multilateralism so when it comes to championing human rights across the world it seems like the united kingdom can talk the talk but can't quite walk the walk but this week it really does feel as though britain is going through some sort of existential identity crisis so now it's trying to reposition itself on the international world stage and reassert its global dominance but it seems like it will do that at any cost. britain has trade deals worth billions of pounds with various countries topping the list of human rights violators in the last 4 years saudi arabia carried out of a 500 executions as capital punishment while in india and 2020 there was registered there well over a 1000 deaths in judicial custody we spoke to the director of global justice now who was not surprised by dominic rob's comments anything really surprises me about

this is that people still think human rights plays any role whatsoever in terms of british trade policy it's only been a couple of weeks now since boris johnson's own backbenchers try to amend a piece of legislation to say they would they want to prevent the british government doing trade deals with genocide in regimes and the government a closed it so there are backbenchers don't trust them not to do trade deals with countries that are committing genocide acts of genocide. and the british government said we don't want to have our hands tied so really british trade policy is that it's human rights free zone and dominic rabs response to democracy apparently being in retreat around the world seems to be that democracy should also be in retreat in this country because the paper that he put out yesterday the integrated defense review had some absolutely chilling passages in including the fact that we're going to be increasing our new killer weapons stockpile by 40 percent and this is a deeply is a liberal government and you know i think the trade policy is clearly going to play

a role in future years in the promotion of british power i'm british transnational corporations around the world. local authorities along america's southern border are calling on the government to step in as the region faces a record influx of migrants and u.s. border patrol is struggling to provide cove and secure shelter for thousands of people and the mayor 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 early sort of 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 but a southern states including arizona. borne the brunt of the migrant influx recent

polls suggest there's a growing doubt about the ability of the authorities to cope with a situation on the us mexico border and with the pandemic the biden administration has deployed the disaster agency fema to deal with the situation despite being beyond that every minute may chris riggs again believes the federal government wasn't prepared for such a migrant numbers. there is definitely the concern. how that is going to impact my community. has a large number of seniors and elders. 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 our our citizens are projecting this is a crisis simple as that i'm 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 through this they need to do their job they need to have a plan in place obviously there was no plan. to russia now where the governor of the region has been detained on suspicion of taking bribes that's going to tell us on this now across life. joining us here on the program today is to ask you what we know so far can you bring us up to date when news just coming in that the governor of the panza region which is just to the southeast of moscow is in some hope whata he has been detained and criminal proceedings have been an issue against him now the accusation is the 62 year old he's actually only been in the post since 2015 was embroiled in the giving and taking of bribes now the information so far provided by the invest have committee is that between january and september 2020 because it's of took around 331000000 rubles which is around 410000 u.s.

dollars now he's thought to have received those large sums of money from among others but most notably a porous spiegel who heads up the biotech pharmaceutical group now in exchange it's it's alleged that going to starts off basically they've preferential treatment. biotech when it was bidding for government contracts not just so that we can understand biotech is a huge player in russia in the medical spare it primarily does produce medicines but it doesn't also sell pharmaceutical products that are both from russia and from foreign countries unlike many in the industry 2020 was a big profitable year for the pharmaceutical holding and it did in fact engage in the delivery of essential medical items to many regions throughout the country during the height of the pandemic those are the kind of details that we have at the moment not much more coming in we do know that going to of properties have been. as

well as those of other people suspected to be involved a room at 6 in total and the arrest warrants will likely be issued soon so we'll be keeping an eye on that all right i. thank you. for your weekly returns at the top of the hour hope you can join us that. humanity has never seen such strange natural phenomena before giant cletus appearing in the mountain in. one after another. look never doubt the camp again you said you. get your you put you know good does look we don't have a chance you would be at. this one appeared in 2020. how

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the welcome to worlds apart is a bit of roughly a year since comet 19 irish the running roughshod over all aspects of our lives with its spikes breaking and in fact everything we used to take for granted but is that since little league but surely and they able are released along down the question is what is the new post pinned down make normal going to be what are the boundaries of personal social and international responsibility on the matters of how well to discuss that i'm now joined by luke and professor of biochemistry at trinity college dublin professor neal it's great to talk to you thank you very much for your time now are you happy to be here now i know that your head be back soon if you've asked you've been arguing that governments should be banging down doris to get access to proven back scenes regardless of their source regardless of political considerations do you think though that the vaccination campaign to

global vaccination campaign the way it has been.