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when i was a child. in the. sticks to. something the u.s. president. diplomacy is. the top stories of the week. welcome to the program. several. blocks medical. faces a possible way. concerning sputnik v. and other vaccines i strongly insist that the relevant e.u. bodies issue now with rice asian food safe vaccines as soon as possible the more vaccines we have the better for us in also some stuff in the long as far as 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 seen but if a new such european order were mate 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 with a look like they might break ranks with the european regulator earlier this month firms in a number of e.u. countries and deals to produce rushers despite nick the job but they're all still waiting on the blocks regulator to approve the drug so i think v. has already been authorized by $46.00 nations and europe slovakia and hungary are already rolling out the injection. well hungary's of foreign minister told 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 $680000.00

doses off the russian job over the next 2 weeks hungary it was the 1st e.u. nation to approve sputnik 3 and more than 1400000 hunger areas have since received a 1st dose of the medicine earlier we spoke to peter c. otto himself he told us that politics should stay out when it comes to saving lives . what's seen is not a question of ideology for us is a matter of saving lives and if you had not contracted chinese and russian vaccines 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 had 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 to be minister montoro mused back

at the end of october before i got to don't 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 than 1400000 now today just mourning even more and more than 1500000 i'm gary and i want to be in vaccinated meantime a scandinavian countries are extending a freeze on their 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 taking us through developments now his arteries shot at the open skin. several scandinavian countries. still unsure about losing this vaccine let's start with finland which has now suspended the use of the astra zeneca jab why they can 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 6 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 think e.m. a 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 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 really approved it rubberstamp it will. 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 move it'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 we hear about those who died but i don't want to take the risk so i'm waiting a little longer this is

a mystery you know of 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 is 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 the proxy i was 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 that's after the u.s. health department publicly boasted that it tried to dissuade brazil from using rushers sputnik the vaccine it's a move branded by the kremlin as unprecedented and. is our correspondent but i guess the. we've all heard the bat back to deals to secure that shipment countries trampling each other to get those precious jobs these says the 1st stop 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 touchy office to persuade brazil to reject the russian copied 19 vaccine and that is 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 clearance plane 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 an 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 cousy 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 millions of lives

is paramount but the degree 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 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 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 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 well despite its admission in the report the us health department says it cannot comment on a vaccine is not approved by the american f.d.a. and cannot prevent countries from using the drugs they have authorized themselves. joe biden gave an interview in which he was asked whether russia's president was a killer he answered yes involves a lot of mean putin would pay the price for alleged interference in u.s. elections moscow responded by calling its u.s. envoy back to the russian capital for crisis talks on the state of relations with washington let's get more on this now is daniel holkins. 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. 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 going over you. know that the president gave a direct answer to

a direct question but aside from threats through paying a price i don't outsing 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 allow this new sanctions targeting russia what will trump 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 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. 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 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 buy and to continue the discussion in parson in an uncensored law of online broadcast something that may be unprecedented in such high level talks you know what 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 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. that are still to come on the program on the international authorities along america's southern border are raising the alarm over a record number of amassing at my 3 year old local mayors concerns after a very short break.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. very dramatic to follow only closely. i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and. the world is driven by shaped. thinks. we ask.

you with us today for the program monday 10 years since the outbreak of war in syria hundreds of thousands of people have been killed in the conflict and millions displaced by 2015 almost half of 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 now since russia has become an integral part of the peace process helping broker last year's ceasefire agreement as well as supplying humanitarian aid for the syrian people. and now reports from syria about russia's role in the country.

let me mean russian air base here and fear is northern province of what track it takes up a relatively small piece of land 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 global war 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. from a main airbase thought 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 health 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 syria's civilian population. it's going slowly but life is beginning to fill the streets of syria's cities once again.

i have spent half of my life i 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 for study i want things and see read the way they used to be. the 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. territories and

supplied us with wheat and rice i remember the streets 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 shelled at any moment and it was the same gloomy mood basically all over the country 10 years on locals still spend hours queuing for fuel of bread so many of them i jobless but they say please this guy's evolve and now clear brief an ocean otty from damascus in syria. now this is out international local authorities along america's southern border are calling on the government to step in as the region faces a record influx of migrants u.s. border patrol is struggling to provide covert secure a shelter for thousands of people and the mayor of one 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. 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 ours and alabama have borne the brunt of the migrant influx and recent poll suggests there is growing doubt about the ability of both or at least to cope with the situation on the us mexico border and with the pandemic the biden administration has deployed the disaster agency fema to help deal with the situation and mayor chris riggs again believes the federal government was not prepared for such as john migrant numbers. yeah there is definitely the concern of code and. how that is going to impact my community and 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 if 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 3rd going to for 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 blockers to children with gender identity issues chris ellison filmed this hold on his phone it seems to show several people approaching him demanding he leaves the area and calling him a transphobia he was left with

a broken off the one of the attackers repeatedly hit him with a traffic con here's how he described the event. 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 off me that i would be dying $1000.00 children cannot consent to puberty blockers it seems to me like a 100 percent it's a premeditated act they knew i was there and they came to get me. the issue surrounds the administration of the drugs that stop the onset of puberty by blocking certain hormones the physical effects eventually wear off when the child stops taking them however 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 is no magic time machine they get those 5 years those years of development are gone and studies also that eloquent doesn't even think straight and if you're going to come up and it takes time for the body to adjust and get going again though what's happening is we have all sorts of young adults now in their twenty's who are these 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 aim so they try to say that if we don't want to if you believe that somehow we're against the sikh community but this has nothing to do with that there's no thinking involved in it they just. you want to be the other gender ok here you go we're going to start puberty and you know. to russia now where the governor of the pens our region has been detained on suspicion of taking bribes is our correspondent. one news just coming in that the governor of

the panza region which is just to the southeast of moscow is in some hot water 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 the information so far provided by the investigative committee is that between january and september of 2020 the government received a total of $31000000.00 roubles not around 415000 u.s. dollars he's thought to have received those large sums of money from among others but most notably perhaps a boris spiegel who heads up the biotech pharmaceutical group in exchange it's alleged that the governor gave preferential treatment to biotech when it was bidding on government contracts not just so that we can understand biotech is a.