if you don't take that advice easy going to do it yourself. president. developers to discuss a production. domestically produced. none of the foreign equivalents of the same level of protection once again this is a resounding success for domestic science and its nice approach is the geographical adoption of the speech is actively. looking to. the european regulators to approve russia. the e.u. ups the ante and its vaccine supply future with the u.k. saying it could stop blocking cross-channel shipments. also in the headlines.

of animals. rallies against the controversial bill. these are the stories we're tracking for you. with russia's covert vaccine developers to discuss ways of accelerating the rollout both domestically and also overseas what's more he stressed the strong safety record of russian shots compared to foreign rivals. probably the biggest news of the day here in russia and also a serious call friends boost for those who are still worried about the vaccination is the announcement from president vladimir putin that he is going to get the

vaccine tomorrow that is going to be chouse day march 23rd but don't we don't know which of the 3 russian made vaccines registered in this country he has chosen and it looks like the kremlin doesn't want to reveal that in order not to give any preferences to any of the 3 manufacturers but mr putin has praised all of them saying all 3 russian vaccines are great so what you mean is today with full confidence we can say this something has been proven that russian vaccines are absolutely safe and effective none of the for an equivalence should the same level of protection once again this is a resounding success for domestic science and it's been recognized approved is the geographical adoption of the speed of the vaccine is actively growing the russian leader said that after providing the latest numbers on the vaccination in this

country so far 6300000 russians have received the 1st component of the jab 4.3 are good to go with the complete 2 components now a broad 55 countries have approved the use of the v. although a lot of our putin is making it clear that for the russian government the domestic campaign to immunize the public for now is the number one priority in the meantime a senior european union official has battled back after saying last week that sputnik v. was one of the candidates for official use in the european union in his latest t.v. interview terry bret tong said that the blog pretty much doesn't need sputnik via at all and sided issues with production pace in russia. we have absolutely no need for sputnik v. the russians are having a hard time making it. the manufacturers of russian made sputnik the reacted to

that statement almost immediately by accusing mr bird tong of being biased against just because it's russian they made it clear though that the only ultimate goal for them is to carry on saving more and more lives around the world the response from president putin also came quite quickly 1st he blamed some western officials and western media for leading a deliberate campaign to discredit russian made vaccines and also questioned the genuine goals of the people who make such statements. we are not forcing anyone to do anything but when we hear such comments from officials the 1st question that comes to mind is who do you serve to represent the interests of pharmaceutical companies well to citizens of european nations what are you doing and these people are trying to lecture us so the bottom line is that despite what the russian side is calling bias and attacks against russian vaccines moscow wants to accelerate the

pace of the production and vaccination both at home and they're looking forward to that abroad as well hungary's top diplomat calling on a year regulators to approve sputnik of a bell for he personally received the russian vaccine and then interview without the foreign minister explain why he thinks europe's will collation campaign has faulted. vaccine is not a question of ideology for us it is a matter of saving lives and that if we had not contracted the chinese and the vaccine be good and have saved the health care ahead of health and the lives of many hungry areas the hungry a 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 purchasing when you

after a long serious of negotiations only were able to sign our contract which. a lot in accelerating the vaccination in hungary. there are 2 ways you know europe according to the european regulations how a vaccine gonna get approvals one day is definitely through the e.m.a.p. rokia medicines agency through a let's see we're going to read procedures but you don't get the regulations also say there's another way in case of emergency and that these other way should be completed by the national regulators would use for the emergency even. so the fact that the hungary a national regulator has issue with emergency use or fraud offer a zation is nothing you know against their regulations and and that's what made us a little bit fed up you know that the way hungary has approved this we knew it was

going to dirty in the western part of your opening global media as if we had made something of gays do with their regulations which is which is not true you wrote your regulations say very clearly that in a case of emergency you can make such an. icon give you an explanation why e.m.e.a. is so slow of course of course i mean bureaucratic explanations can be given any time they can say that they date back more documentation based by the russian counterpart to the sound that but i don't know what i see is what i see is that there are vaccines in the world which are used by millions millions of people russian or chinese but that these are not authorized here in iraq you know once again you're a graphic explanations counties even the 1900 uses about the lives of the people but more wrecks and you have and the more people you're going to say but i think very simple at least to speak about it for sure. the

decentralized procurement procedure managed by brushing has failed asperity comes regardless of the promises and the expectations there are much less back seems arriving and market share slower compared to what had been before why it became obvious that the shipments. managed and coordinated by brussels are not satisfactory weaver on the right down by the same people by the same bureaucrats by the same politicians why we want to buy additional of axes for our own people for our own people and i think this is a this is a matter of of obligation of the state of the government to protect the lives of its own people a covert vaccines are also center stage in the e.u.'s relations with the u.k.

brussels has now doubled down on threats to block exports of a chronic delays in distribution we have the possibility to ban planned exports this is a message to astra zeneca you fulfill your part of the deal towards europe before you start to deliver to other countries it seems that the e.u. could be holding back on millions of vaccines that it due to be transported to the u.k. in the next the ranks if it takes that decision to suspend all facts in the next ports to be ok now the move has incensed government ministers as you can imagine but also opposition party the labor party standing by u.k. government on this particular point and calling for calm from the e.u. i would urge the european commission to calm down the language cool the rhetoric and that's try and work together to get through this crisis. what seems most bizarre is the fact that this is over astra zeneca jobs coming to the e.u.

or not enough and that's because there is a huge amount of mistrust in this particular vaccine just for example here in france it's so high that only 20 percent of people say that they have faith in that job and as we know over the last week 19 european countries decide this to suspend astra zeneca over fears of safety in regards to blood clots and despite the fact that the european medical say didn't see as once again rubber stamped it that's not good enough for some e.u. countries who are still holding back and while. big wigs are talking about the idea of not getting enough astra zeneca day to stay here what they're not talking about is how many doses european countries are just sitting on millions and millions of doses that have yet to be used here now i also want to talk about what's happening in france because astra zeneca has been restarted as a campaign again but this new advice from the french health authorities here which

means it can now only be used for over 50 five's completely different advice to what we had just a few weeks ago where president machen was saying that it was quasi effective for all their age groups and that some u.k. experts is causing a problem in undermining confidence it doesn't make any sense the whole thing looks completely crackers they're changing the rules almost every week they're really damaging people's confidence in vaccines generally they're sitting on a massive stockpile of vaccines that they haven't deployed yet and at the same time they've got a massive wave of the new variants coming across the country you could make it up. there's also a question about how much of this row is about the e.u. trying to deflect attention from how poorly it's handled this crisis something it itself has admitted and of course let's not forget the u.k. was invited to join the joint profumo scheme with the e.u. despite breaks it the e.u. politely declined and said we're going to do it our own way and as

a result of that they speeding ahead with their vaccination program just to put that into context 51 percent of all adults in the u.k. have received at least one dose of a vaccine compare that to around 10 percent here across the e.u. as a whole and the figures really sort of paint a picture of how starkly different the campaigns are and some might say that this is now the e.u. throwing a bit of a tantrum and it's ready to throw the baby out with the bath water. british governments condemned sunday night's rioting in the city of bristol bird the hope secretary describing it as. police vans were torched and 20 officers injured during a protest against a controversial bill to expand police powers. please please please.

please. but what we've seen over the weekend was protest against. the legislation being introduced by the british government but many have accused the government of attempting to try to cut down on people's ability to protest freely given the police will powers as to when and where people can demonstrate now of course a lot of this is taking place against the backdrop of the cove it's a pandemic and there are fears that this legislation will be that's a long term if not permanent changes and so to that extent there was a protest to in the southwestern city of bristol last night bob as the evening wore on things became progressively more violent. clashes took place feed a number of the protesters and police away here in the central bristol bridewell police station where a number of officers 20 officers were injured one suffering

a punctured lung one with broken ribs and another with a broken arm so quite serious scene 7 arrests were made and it led to the patient of all those violent scenes from christmas all 170 degrees was one of the most of the morning texts behind the legislation i have sparked this in bristol. unacceptable scenes in bristol tonight secor and is old dead by a minority will never be tolerated our police officers put themselves in harm's way to protect us all my source this evening a with those police officers singe it now we've seen it already it said it's a clean up operation taking place a number of forensic police officers on the roof of the police station perhaps gathering. which though it's had to use to make arrests in the coming days weeks so we also spoke to a number of the locals here in bristol many of them are supportive of the rights for people to protest but perhaps some of them as well not very keen on some of the

more violent scenes we saw last night but overall we can perhaps see this is something a forbearance of what is to come if the government doesn't try to limit people's right to protest peacefully as they've been accused by their critics. the u.s. is grappling with a survey of migrant crisis on its southwestern border and a record $5000.00 unaccompanied children are now being held in border patrol custody local authorities have run out of space to house them and many youngsters are being housed in cramped conditions and overflowing facilities these images from the city of donna in texas they were released by a democrat lawmaker it's one of several border shelters that are now running at around 16 times capacity and many children have been stranded that for at least 10 days sleeping and eating holes live now to our u.s. correspondent. hi this of border crossings from mexico arguably the by the

administration's biggest challenge so far how the government coping well it just points we've got washington d.c. officials going back and forth about whether or not what's happening at the border is really a crisis we've got biden promising that he will visit the border meanwhile we've got the border officials and leaders of the democratic party in congress urging the administration to get back to reality take their share of the blame for the policies that seem to implemented this crisis and really get a grip on what is happening here some of what we've heard. you have a breach on national security levels that have never before been seen in modern history it just blows my mind how disconnected from reality they are or maybe they do know maybe they just don't want to call a spade a spade you know because it's uncomfortable it's a slap in the face i said hey i just want to let you know what's going on we need

to get a handle on this before it gets out of hand even within a week i was already calling the white house to say hey guys you've got to take a look at it when you create a system that incentivizes people to come across and they are released that immediately sends a message to central america that if you come across you can stay now while there are big calls for the administration to get things under control and start responding to what many are calling a crisis it seems like the biden administration does not want there to be media access to what is happening on the border and the u.s. facilities that have been set up one journalist was quite outraged about the fact that he had to go to another country just to take photographs of what was happening here in the united states he had to stand on one side of the border here's what's been said by some in the press were angry about the lack of access i respectfully ask u.s.

customs and border protection to stop blocking media access to their border operations i have photographed c.b.p. under bush a bomber and trump but now 0 access is granted to media these long lens images taken from the mexican side until now u.s. faces journalists haven't needed to stand in another country to photograph what's happening in the united states. now many will recall that while donald trump was president photographs of children held in facilities detention facilities that were set up during the obama administration were widely circulated and there was mass discussion and outrage about you know what they referred to in the media as kids in cages and there was widespread visiting of the facilities your recall congresswoman alexandria because you know cortez had a well publicized visit to the detention facility and there was widespread coverage but the biden administration seems to be rather adamant that it is simply not

appropriate to give the media access and to publicize what is going on at the u.s. border here's some of what we've heard. i don't necessarily think that it's appropriate for a journalist to be inside centers that are that are are not permanent place places for children and children are not placed there permanently white house spokesperson jen psaki has constantly emphasized that the biden administration believes in what she calls transparency but it seems like when it comes to the situation at the u.s. border it's much easier to divert ever 3 one's attention much easier to close people's eyes than it is to actually resolve an ongoing situation that many refer to as a crisis. selling something we'll keep watch on but as best we can anyway for now though in new york and i'm open thank you. x. to form a top european officials are calling on brussels to stop caving in to u.s.

pressure when it comes to sanctions including those against iran and russia and they published an open letter demanding countermeasures as nicky gavron reports next. well this opalescent which has been jointly penned by a former french diplomat pierre vermont's alongside 3 institutes in paris berlin and brussels calls for insurance europe to stand up to washington now the letter suggests that europe europeans have grown weary of the domineering pressure coming from the us and encourages the block to consider acquiring the means of countering these extra territorial sanctions now one of the authors of the letter has been very open about this in the past. we must gradually convince europeans that when we don't agree with washington's political line we must be able to see no and continue political dialogue with them so the note goes on to propose a series of tit for tat countermeasures all on a par with the kind of sanctions that the u.s. is placing on european countries companies i should say now such counter measures

would include prohibiting access to european territories to the. perpetrators of such sanctions also taking into consideration particular banks from countries issuing extraterritorial sanctions when it comes to them asking for loans from the european central bank and national banks there's a series of other council measures as well let's take a listen we could suspend the financial pass putting system which would prevent banks of the sanction in country from operating in europe we could freeze the assets on european territory of certain public entities of countries see issuing sanctions we have to show that we can retaliate if we want to be listened to so this bold call from europe clearly comes as the block is going dissatisfied with this pressure coming from the u.s. with europe please find itself not on the same page as the u.s. on a number of issues recently be it the iran nuclear deal being the u.s. pulling out of the climate change accord under donald trump

a lot of course there is only going disagreements over the stream to gas pipeline project so what is seems like we're seeing here is really europe calling for it to come together and to stand up against this external pressure but of course in a way that is fair on the par with those sanctions coming from the u.s. in a way that would ensure this ongoing friendly dialogue between the 2 sides or the president of the geopolitical think tank you're a continent has told r.t. that he thinks the e.u. needs to form its own alliances without interference from washington. this is a good idea now or 2 to try to put new i.d.'s to have more european strategic autonomy is excess exactly what the e.u. should do to retaliate against extraterritorial measures from the united states rouge dummy g.'s european or companies but oversaw the autonomy and the for bt to europeans to decide to use sovereign way about we've loon viduka

mers we would they exchange treaties where he'd buy oid with the united states just put his current strategy is to fragment eurasia and to prevent too much cooperation between europe and union under our shop in order to slow down murty put our rechy and to prevent europeans to be too much independent from united states as wrong as e.u. doesn't fink it's sent as in not to know was powell or and doesn't decide in a more sovereign way it's really going to be difficult. timmy's grains have been criticized over their coal to scrap the north stream to gas pipeline the party was a major winner in this month regional elections and is now playing for the project would damage the country's international standing but a member of the road in christian democratic union told us that energy imports need

to be diversified. the greens are more or less an arm of the u.s. internationalist elite. they've been they've done that for a while they are more or less completely. following the u.s. strategy they are not looking after germany their party that have in their mind and their program basically to abolish germany and you can see that on all fronts and so they point towards ukraine and we should look for german interests 1st we should look for european interests 1st and it's very worthwhile and good for europe and for germany to diversify its energy sources and not to be dependent on one direction because if you're dependent on one direction almost looks like mafia tactics you take away the the the activity and then you provide the stuff yourself and of course it's good for germany to have energy sources from russia

directly and from the west and from wherever but not from one direction please on the great claim that north 3 too would hurt germany's climate and renewable energy commitments as well as its international standing reporting from berlin peter all of it. germany's green party have been setting out their election promises ahead of this year's national vote scrapping the north stream 2 gas pipeline is being given top billing but the greens stance puts them in lock step with the biden administration in washington secretary of state antony blinken has also just announced that the infrastructure project should be stopped and that businesses involved in the pipeline could face sanctions and the entity involved in the north stream to pipeline risks u.s. sanctions and should immediately abandon work on the pipeline costing just over 9000000000 euros north stream 2 is already more than 95 percent complete it will allow russian gas to flow directly into germany under the baltic sea and could be

used to bypass existing pipelines which take gas through ukraine which would cost valuable transit fees the pipeline is seen by some politicians as the only way for germany to get the energy it needs while facilitating the move away from nuclear and coal. we are the only highly industrialized country which at the same time wants to get rid of nuclear energy and coal those who use a huge amount of nuclear energy such as mike rann have an easier task to replace fossil fuels this is a bold move from the greens it puts at risk a potential coalition between themselves and the conservative union which had been widely talked up ahead of september's fought christian democratic union leader arm in the shark remains on track to be angular merkle successor chancellor that's despite strong gains by the greens and the corruption scandal over m.p.'s earning extra money through lobbying taking its toll on his party in polling he is regarded

as an economic pragmatist when it comes to the pipeline and the gas it would provide the conservatives are the only ones willing to finish the project. the greens always have a special position visibly russian instead of rejecting the shameless u.s. threat and interference in germany there be sickly asking the us to enforce sanctions thus turning themselves into lobbyists for dirty inexpensive us fracking gas which is not green at all. there and to transition is important to protect the climate and group will be serious if we want to remain competitive if we want to secure job in this industry status and if we want to secure perspire easy for everyone transitions acknowledging been place running with such a big foreign and economic policy front and center is a big gamble from the greens it suggests that they think that they could win the election in september because if they don't and they were to enter into

a coalition government with the concert serves as the junior partner well that could well require a large policy climb down peter all of our r.t. berlin. genius leader or a mass murderer francis plans to mark the 200th anniversary of napoleon bonaparte death of spirit opinion with the new york times launching an attack on the 19th century emperor. as a black woman of haitian descent and a scholar of french colonialism i find it particularly galling to see that france plans to celebrate the man who restored slavery to the french caribbean an architect of modern genocide his troops created gas chambers to kill my ancestors and i going that critics blast napoleon's brutal military campaigns across europe and asia but many have sprung to his defense insisting that he boosted social institutions and laid the foundations of the french legal system and

a top political commentator says the attacks are too selective. as the new york times and as we know the new york times has become a propaganda instrument of a certain strain a work of scholarship in which you go hunt people to oppose and to insult i'm not going to sort of take sides on this when slavery is a bad thing it was abolished forever in france in 845 it was only abolished in america 865 it was abolished in russia uneaten 60 we're not the last there's no reason it's no reason to essentially start criticizing the podium because you have it in for france in general which is what the new york times has consistently the last few years but york times article comes a bit wider assault on historical figures now considered progressive but analysts are both motel you again says that simply ignoring the fact. what's going on this thing called critical race theory which is really dangerous is 1st of all you teach

a simplified caricatural of history that does not reflect anything as complex that what happened and then when people have no memory and no culture you can practically tell them anything that the whole point is to criticize a certain type of colonialism if you take the ottoman empire if you take which which is the longest. serving i mean longest acting colonial powers more than half a 1000000 euro and who are quite thorough. against our populations and who practiced slavery nobody talks about that they will only talk about a certain type of western europeans because they've decided that they were everything that is evil. in the u.s. state of california will be reopening next week after a year long shutdown but there are plenty of do's and don'ts including some strict rules on how to behave on roller coasters is to make you poke explained remember having fun like a theme park.