hungary's foreign minister and 1st senior official. along with. r t. c are. saving lives. the week. giving the ok from the european medicines agency. but u.k. doctors. counseling appointments for the. u.s. department of health. before they.

tested for the very 1st time in new york. when i was a child and we had. we would say. something the u.s. president said despite. diplomacy is back. from the past 7 days on right up to the moment developments as well this is the weekly on r.t. a little welcome. several e.u. leaders are urging the block's medic agency to prove. europe itself for a 3rd wave of coronavirus. consenting. other vaccines i strongly insist that the relevant issues. for safe vaccines as soon as possible the more vaccines we have

the better for. also some stuff is 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 madison's agence singh 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 want to move would do less the view of politicians companies across europe look like very light break ranks with the european regulator to earlier this month firms in a number of e.u. countries in deals to produce sputnik 3 but they're all still waiting on the blocks regulator to approve the drug it's not been authorized by 46 nations and europe slovakia and hungry are busy ruling out the job already in fact hungary's foreign minister has become the 1st top official from an e.u. member state to receive the sputnik. peter c

r 2 sees his country is expecting to receive an additional $680000.00 doses of the shot over the next 2 weeks hungry was also the 1st the e.u. nation to approve sputnik 3 since then some one of a half 1000000 hungary and i received a 1st dose of the vaccine earlier we spoke to mr c r 2 who himself had some months ago he told us that politics shouldn't be a priority when lives are at stake. but sr 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 our 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 3rd purchasing. i have started going to go she shows me the minister montu role 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 today this morning even more than 1500000 i'm here ians have already been vaccinated meanwhile nordic countries are extending a freeze on the use of the astra zeneca covert vaccine that's the spike the european medicines agency concluding on thursday that their growth was quote safe and effective taking us through developments here's our teats charlotte dubinsky several scandinavian countries still sure about losing this vaccine that start with

food and do it has now suspended the use of the asp is any good job why they think best against cases of potential blood clots on top of that we know that norway denmark and sweden they're all holding back for starting their programs all of them still have concerns about rounding astra zeneca and saying that they going to carry out this move the best case is now due to several serious cases and no way we want to thoroughly review the. before you make a conclusion well blood clots it is the issue that speaking just cussed over and over nots initially will be the main was investigating over the last week or so 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 hospitalized patients continued to outweigh the possible links as a result of taking the astra zeneca vaccine and that's why they really approved it rubber stamped 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 old but if i go back to 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 we tells feel for many is if they knew would go. is a complete u. turn and it is leaving many people questioning why well the reason is because they 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. those who died but they don't want to take the risk so i'm waiting a little longer. you never know how they made it 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 but there's also now the question as to what this means for the year 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 point that looks at medicines and decides if it's to improve them so the idea that countries are now questioning 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 are no enough facts seems to befriend

a 3rd 1000 wave here in europe and many people may now be saying you know actually i don't want that proxy and i would prefer to have read your big issues that need to be resolved. you know the big issues not a variance new york has reported its 1st case of a highly contagious brazilian strain of covert now that in fact comes just after the us health department publicly boasted that he tried to dissuade brazil from using the sputnik a move branded by the kremlin quote on president. or senior correspondent ghosty of texas through the. we've all heard the bad back to deals to secure that scene shipment of 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 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 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 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. as a 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 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 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 us 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 life saving job so we're fishes and washington can go to sleep at night feeling good and safe. it just a note to. peace despite its admission in the report the us health department says it doesn't comment on vaccines not approved by the f.d.a. and won't prevent countries from using drugs they have authorized themselves. and choose that joe biden gave an interview in which he was asked whether russia's president was a killer he answered yes and that love him or putin would pay the price for alleged

interference in u.s. elections moscow responded by calling its u.s. envoy to the russian capital for talks on the state of relations with washington. 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 over who should. know that the president gave a direct answer to a direct question about aside from threats through pay a price and i'll sing 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 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 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 which took a certain. 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 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

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 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. this is r.t. international still ahead authorities along america's southern border are raising the alarm over a record number of them mussing migrants to the also for your are being tested properly for coburn we hear a local nurse concerned for the brain. join

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20 minutes into the program welcome back. mark 10 years since the outbreak of war in syria hundreds of thousands of people have been killed in the conflict millions more at this placed by 2015 almost half the country was occupied by the islamic state or a group which is when the russian military decided to puppets wait in the syrian government. since then russia has become an integral part of the peace process helping broker. a ceasefire agreement moscow's also been supplying humanitarian aid

to the syrian people are. reports now from syrian about russia's role in that country. let me mean russian air base here and fear is northern province or 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 to play that music out loud forces for their defeats predicted it was a very important moment then russian navigation played

a very important role might see one know 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 to 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 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 peace for syria and the reason a sense of real calm 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 the 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 series 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 a difficult we cannot provide our children with the most basic necessities clubs not books 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 and. liberate territories and supplied us with wheat and 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 on locals still spend hours queuing for fuel or bread so many of them might jobless but they say please the skies above and now clear brief an ocean otty from damascus in syria. they want to bring you live now in the program to the u.k.

where protests are being held across the country against the new police single some 10 scenes happening in the inner city of bristol this is occurring a lot of police violence a tense standoff as well police on horses to what happened earlier there are a number of hours ago activists torched police after attempting to topple it. the rally is helping all near the slogan kill the build when you draw flow if it will give the authorities greater powers to restrict public gatherings and into the real dollars where all the display with the message say no to u.k. police state there have also being major rallies are police stations in other words . local authorities along america's southern border a calling on the government to step in as the region faces

a record influx of migrants u.s. border patrol is struggling to provide cope and secure shelter for thousands of people the murder of a town in nora's owner told me the crisis is on president. 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 yeah 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 our a zone and texas have borne the brunt of the migrant influx a recent poll suggests there's growing dullards about the ability of the authorities to cope with the situation in the us mexico border amid the pandemic the biden ministration has deployed the disaster agency fema to deal with the situation to chris riggs again believes the federal government either didn't think through the situation or don't care. 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 our our citizens are protected if this is a crisis simple as that and 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 offer this they need to do their job they need to have a plan in place obviously there was no plan. this week we also covered the story of a canadian activists who was attacked in montreal while demonstrating against giving puberty blockers to children with gender identity issues chris health and fill in the assault on his phone that shows several people demanding to leave the

area while calling him a troll and spoke to he was left with a broken arm after one of the attackers repeatedly hit him with a traffic cone he described the incident and. 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 to 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 notice a refined on 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. well the issue surrounds drugs that stop me on the set of puberty by blocking certain hormones the physical effects eventually wear off when the child stops taking them however there are many 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 show that the end of criticism 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 d. transitioning and canada is going a 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 kids 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 stop puberty and you know well that is how some of the week stories shaped up time to delve into our program stay close this is our key international.