several. people under the age of 60. usual blood cloths which led to deaths. also coming up in the program. kurds starts talks with russia 1000000 doses of the. european union approved. warranted for an all missed warning. his community can't be held responsible for the actions of some individuals if muslims are treated with more respect the statement coming out.

of the. debate. here is that a. fine day with police protection. cultural debate raging for a politician is under fire for insisting whites have no say in discussions about race. broadcasting live from the russian capital every hour of the day. pleasure to have your company my names you know. several german regions have suspended the use of the oxford astra zeneca covert vaccine for people on the b. age of 60 berlin munich and brandenburg state took votes there are 31 new reports

of unusual blood clots some of which resulted in death or europe correspondent peter all over reports during a hearing in the berlin city senate the senator for health said that this was a precautionary measure that it was being taken following new data with relation to side effects from the vaccine across germany there have been 31 cases of blood clots developing in those who'd had the astra zeneca vaccine 29 of those of being women and 9 of those cases have ended up being fatal now this is a situation regarding the vaccine which is likely to further erode the. confidence in it here in germany in fact. it crosses medical staff to be receiving it in the country we can see one case in hanover just recently where 600 medical staff were offered the astra zeneca vaccine only 200 came forward to get it this

suspension of giving it out to the under sixty's is only likely to really affect those working in the health service germany's rollout of the vaccine in the general population is currently still only vaccinating the over 70 so it's those in specific employment that are receiving vaccines who are under that age particularly those who work in the medical profession what we have seen though is this isn't just happening in germany in fact in canada the national advisory committee on vaccines has advised that the job for masters that it cannot be given out to those under the age of $55.00. there is substantial uncertainty about the benefit of providing astra zeneca coded $900.00 faxing to adults under 55 years of age given that the potential risks associated with v.o.i.p. coursing particularly at the low estimated rates or we're just a couple of weeks on from another scandal involving the astra zeneca vaccine where

a number of nations suspended the its use over fears of blood clots that was here in europe as well as in central america in africa in asia as well most of those nations resumed using astra zeneca as vaccine following an investigation that was carried out by the european medicines agency their director and the cook came out give a press conference in which he said the astra zeneca vaccine was safe for use we also heard from the world health organization saying that the benefits of taking the astra zeneca job far outweighed any potential risks while later on choose day we are going to hear from the german chancellor angela merkel she is expected to give a press conference at alongside her health minister yet inspired as they say what the future of astra zeneca being used in germany is at least in the short term meanwhile the astra zeneca shell turns undergone a partial rebranding last week the money fuck sure registered

a new trademark for the european market vox is every 0 up to now the job was distributed in the us quote covered $1000.00 facts in astra zeneca journalist thomas fassbender thinks the timing of the name change is no coincidence. in so many instances possibly patients sitting at the at the vaccination point see on a day with a package and they read astra zeneca vaccine on the package and maybe in the last moment they panicked and refused to accept that vaccine so by renaming it there were it made maybe appear a different name and not the astra zeneca on the package a rebranding even a name in the midst of a crisis and we could say that the vaccine. is in the astra zeneca big scene is going through a crisis i would regard as 'd a rather unusual move it is even more confusing when you take into account that

there was a recommendation not to give vast as anika for people older than $65.00 not because of blood clots at those time at that time but because of in effectiveness then we had the blood clot subject now it is affecting the the lower 65 age bracket the confusion is absolutely understandable there is not one single person responsible for it but it really comes at a bad time. austria her started talks with russia to buy $1000000.00 doses of the sputnik covert vaccine chancellor sebastian kurtz announced the plans which would make austria the 3rd e.u. country to purchase the job the move has received their guarded response from brussels earlier my colleagues research and saskia to discuss the story. the axion roll out continues to descend into chaos appetite for the sputnik the job continues to grow we've just heard straight from the austrian chancellor that

a poet just over 1000000 doses of the russian facts is on the cards something that sebastian cuts could finally set people free if austria receives an additional 1000000 doses of the vaccine a return to normal life is possible earlier and we could save many lives and jobs there should be no joke political barriers with vaccines what matters is whether the vaccine is effective and safe not where it came from. now if the deal goes through they would be delivered in 3 stages starting the 1st part in april the final to the free in june and it would make auster the e.u. country to approve sputnik for use following in the footsteps of hungry. clearly 3 countries was so frustrated with the blocks roll out what they accuse on equal distribution that they were willing to go against brussels against brussels in the sense that technically split it has not been approved by the made up process is underway and whilst officially individual member states can independently register

vaccines for their own use brussels has made it clear that if you do that you're on your own e.u. countries have the right to allow the use of a vaccine that has not received the approval of the european medicines agency on the territory on the mission sea basis however in this case the government of this country will bring a full responsibility for the possible consequences of its use or message that somewhat jars with the european idea of one and one for rule but so brussels we have to remember this is probably very humiliating you know it's vaccine shortages in fighting already and every single headline and this latest from wall street that another member state has lost faith in the blog is probably a bit you'd also mentioned hungary and slovakia what other countries are lining up and showing interest and support and agree while in the south of france the mayor of nice has said that he reached out to producers of sputnik v. essentially to put in an order though he did say that he will not be administering

the vaccine until it gets given the green light by the way which he anticipates in the summer and he really did wave away any misgivings about the job he said look guys it's registered in dozens of countries globally it's going very successfully case in point us though it is worth noting that politically that was a pretty bumpy decision the health minister was actually pushed to resign. a wave of criticism when the prime minister had to really come out very strongly and very reluctant to defend his decision to seek russia's help the sputnik vaccine will not go back to russia it will save lives in slovakia i would never give it up our country is a fundamental part of the european union but i cannot turn down a quality vaccine that will save our people because it's made in russia i'm not a murderer well we'll see whether the austrian chancellor faces similar backlash but looking at this it really is quite clear the famous a unity is failing the blocs failing to meet in fact seem to mom but at the same

time it's refusing to accept help from abroad and it's almost issuing these 70 threats to those who take matters into their own hands apparently all in the name of politics so one really has to offer is a union that puts politics over public health really a union that's fit for pup us. a russian security officer has been injured in an armed see is currently underway in a residential area moscow a 61 year old man is holed up in his house which has been surrounded by police the standoff has been going on for some 6 hours. locals are reporting regular gunfire security forces initially showed up on the horse as part of a probe into arms trafficking in which the shooter is a suspect it is a large heavily fortified building with a high brick wall let's not try and fight to go to some live pictures from the

mosque or region to give you a sense of what is going on there and why we're seeing the fire here at the hoist because rather than letting them in the suspect opened fire hurling 2 grenades police reportedly fired buck with a rocket launcher officers have not yet attempted to storm the home we believe but the special forces units they are all in the sights along with. so it's very much a developing story our correspondent is right now on the way to they start and when we are in contact with patricia we will get them on the program to share more light on what is happening in minute. to moving the program in the u.k. has worn the prime minister that trouble is brewing if more respect is not shown to muslims insinuating that the country could go the way of frogs start after

a teacher in northern england left parts of the community outrage by showing cartoons of the prophet muhammad to his class all we ask for is a bit of respect if one teacher can do it another teach can do it 5 years down the line and we do not want this to be the case otherwise we are not responsible for the actions of some individuals ok let's go through the story be a mom sees that he condemns 1st of all any assertions that promote violence the teacher who sparked the outrage should the prophet muhammad caricatures no it was during a class debate on blasphemy he and his family are now in hiding after receiving death threats the man has apologized but has been suspended though some local muslims are demanding that the school fire him all together however a petition calling on the school to reinstate him has garnered over 65000 signatures while the u.k. government has the fended the teacher. it is never acceptable to threaten the intimidate teaches we encourage dialogue between parents and schools when he has

emerged schools are free to include a full range of issues ideas and materials in their curriculum including where they are challenging a controversial subject they obligations to ensure political balance. well i traded over a similar case in france last october which i'm sure you remember led to the brutal murder of samuel history teacher near parlous he was beheaded by a terrorist after showing caricatures of the prophet muhammad to his people during a discussion on ethics on freedom of expression. on the inside one of our competitors was murdered because he taught our compassion and was the victim of an islamist terror attack.

from a christian concern. a political and social commentator locked horns over the issues raised. this could be very easily turning into some kind of a powder keg and you do not throw that matches into such things we've seen in france and in many european countries the rise of the far right we've seen some 2 tier civil rights system pushing against islam pushing against muslims marginalizing them and it's open season on muslims courage attack them on free speech basis and people make themselves up to be free speech martyrs or somehow muslims become inflamed or they won't fit in western values so what's most alarming here is that a teacher asked her to go into hiding with police protection because what he's done he's he's discussed a point of discussion about

a cartoon and the why the subject of blasphemy he hasn't actually hurt anyone he hasn't actually even threatened any violence and yet there are obviously very real threats of violence against him so much so that the police to protect him and take his family his wife and his children into hiding i think that is very very concerning and i think we need to recover a sense of normality in a sense of people being able to openly discuss and educate people about these things and i've been around the block a few times and have this discussion a few times every time we've had this discussion on free speech and debate we have put down do worst of the ideas racism hatred we know it's not ok to be racist against muslims to make the argument is your right to be racist or is this racist we need to learn about religion that we need to learn about what people believe and we need to openly discuss them and so people and super about it let's be very clear about this that discussing a cartoon is got about how it has nothing to do with basis and it's not racism at all so what's happening here is people are trying to shut down

a discussion and using threats of violence when people judge. people who work with the english defense league you keep anti muslim interest across europe and the rest of the while to try and demonize muslims marginalize them would have enough you will not win the cultural debate. all is he ok to be poked fun at i'm being racist against muslims out of the us read it what else is and you don't get to be offensive towards us this is not the way a free society should he should definitely be defended it's all he's done is raise the discussion people should be free to discuss things in class if we're not free to discuss things we have a de facto blasphemy law in the country which is being enforced by more cruel that threatens violent against people. ok back now to this hour's developing story a major armed siege is underway in a residential area right side moscow police have been trying to detain a suspect in an arms trafficking probe resulting in a shootout and those you can see live pictures here the horse has been in gulf in

flames let's go live to the site where our correspondent who has arrived in. quite astonishing situation dramatic scenes can you tell us what's going on who's the mom there trying to catch what's known about possible casualties . you know hey there well this is a dramatic situation something that doesn't happen very often right now i'm in a very quiet town pretty much village it takes about 10 minutes by bus to get here from. the outskirts of moscow and as far as i understand right now i cannot see the house from here because the police are not. letting me and they're only letting people go through if they can prove that they're actually residents of the town but. my colleagues are telling me that the entire house

at this point is on fire and the fire brigades have been told that for their safety and security they've been asked not to put out the fire so it's unclear whether the shooter is dead. or alive at this point in this is a situation that has been developing here in the small town of vesey for about 10 hours nothing was meant to happen in the 1st place this man was just a suspect it was a serious case a case of armed arms trafficking but nobody expected these kind of dramatic developments police showed up for a check up and what they got instead the man didn't let them in instead he threw a couple of grenades out them so the man is apparently heavily armed what we're also hearing is that inside that house there could be. an entire makeshift

facility for these kind of arms to be made so that is something we didn't get confirmation yet but apparently this man was ready for this kind of situation because the police couldn't do anything about it for such a long time we know that there were several swat teams on site they were responding with grenade launchers and this explains why the house is on fire at this point reportedly the man actually threw 2 dozen grenades at the police now with the whole house on fire like i'm saying it's unclear what's going on with the man the fire brigades won't do anything about it because it's just apparently too dangerous there are residential buildings around there this was something that was making it difficult for the swat teams to go on with the whatever they could do with that c. and we know that one police officer was heavily one did in the leg when the shooter

was responding to the attempts by the police to detain the man so i'm going to be standing here i'm going to try and somehow get closer at least to some kind of position from which i could see the house. i've seen several. truck fire trucks pass by of course there are ambulances and police vehicles around here but i'll try and find out more information for you yeah just let their viewers know the pictures that were on the screen as well you were speaking there they were live so you can see the flames still engulfing the high particularly the top of that house very much for bringing us up to date there live in the moscow region where a quite extraordinary situation is unfolding. there is another cultural debate raging across the english channel a french left wing politician is under fire for saying white people should stay out

of racism discussions critics say the remarks are yet another sign of how u.s. style walk culture is undermining french values r t charlotte dubin ski picks up the story. the empty white debate has been stirred up once again here in france this time after a black politician waded into a row that's been raging over the student union which admitted it held meetings about discrimination that excluded white people this is what exists it exists is this real unions exist now reprove a reason member of the paris local authority and this standing in the coming elections has added her $0.02 she suggested white people could be allowed into those meetings but only if they keep quiet. i'm not saying anyone should be banned from entering but they should stay silent and let others speak in issues

that concern them her comments severed opinion strong scrambles to deal with the rise in identity politics for those on the right this is seen as an unwelcome american import that's undermining universalis french valleys a form of personal culture in my region no resident should be discriminated against for the call of the skin there is no such thing as acceptable racism i will always be a bulwark against those who try to fracture our country others went even further saying that. the unit students' union with the stuff of martin luther king's knowing. the king would be turning in his grave he who dreamed of living in a country where people would not be judged by the color of this scale but by the qualities of their personality but old reprove us remarks gain support from some on

the left including from the leader of france and by out who said that she had merely understood what it discussion group is politicians have been more than vocal but what do ordinary people think is it. ok to exclude white people from a debate and if so is that racist you know well it's an absolute whore i don't know how people can lead you to my such nonsense we should just mental this racist remarks from scratch. only box if that is really a millionaire in your for me it's not acceptable to screwed white people for meetings i view that as racist. and of course that is always i think it's perfectly legitimate to exclude white people from the meetings because it is their felicity i'm france has always been a country which respects human rights and does not look primarily at the color of people's skin. just because 70 about the numbers are not personally concerned about racism but i think it exists see you know me let us know

if it were the other way around if the national party or right wing m.p. said that black or arabic people should be quiet during an event dedicated to the victims of terrorism that's what also cause public outrage the entire political class all the media would just be fired leave rail against this person and condemn him because it's racist france only sees 3 colors blue white and red it distinguishes between citizens only on their merits and not on their roots race or religion i think this is very serious obviously the statement by audrey paul why it's racist and should be universally condemned there can be no double standards here racism is universal unfortunately there are various forms of racism and hatred and we are faced with this everywhere. i gravitated fraud earned involuntary manslaughter that's what french farmer john serve has been found guilty of in one of the country's worst health scandals the case revolves around the

diabetes and weight loss drug mediator which is believed to have caused at least 500 deaths due to heart problems the pill had been on the market for over 30 years now was used by 5000000 people we heard from someone who took the drug and has a prosthetic heart valve. you know when a person is ruined for 10 years when you wear a mechanical pretty serious and take medication for 10 years to live you can't think this is normal has been going on every day since i retired this is crazy fortunately i called my lawyer who i need right now he's always ready to help us as you can see i came here with my daughter because someone must be with me all i can do is drive 20 to 30 kilometers a day we didn't get what we wanted but my lawyer will continue to pursue this case where money has been slapped with a fine of almost 3000000 euro even the french medicines watchdog has been fined for

delaying the halt of drug sales the agency acknowledged it was partly responsible for the scandal comes amid concerns over the lobbying power of pharma companies. well servia say is it was all aware of the adverse side effects until the trial began but the french doctor who 1st discovered the fatal risks told us the company deliberately withheld vital information from patients at the bar. i have been fighting for 14 years for the fact to be recognized that's an incredible fraud was committed by a large french manufacturer a pharmaceutical company with a good reputation which secretly released a strong poison on the market and was selling it for more than a decade and totally knew what it was doing it is difficult to find words to describe such actions this is called a crime namely aggravated fraud the fine they have to pay as a punishment is not very high but the amount that will have to be paid as compensation from all the damage to millions of civilians affected by the fraud is

still impressive about $200000000.00 euros so the total payments are negligible but the court's decision in general is frustrating it is not enough. the migrant buildup along america's side western border shows no sign of easing on the media's continued to be denied access to detention facilities there that has prompted texas senator ted cruz to visit a local center for newcomers to see for himself. conditions really are but when the republican tried to document what he saw he was stopped by a woman he alleges was a political operative working for the by the administration. but you were hired 2 weeks ago and you're instructed to ask us to not have any pictures taken years respected because the political leadership of the dia just does not want the american people to know even that they were here standing in the in front of the pictures so you know that they were thinking the rules are arbitrary and there is i believe to be a very good people and i really like them but i want to fix this situation we are

going to get an illustration you want a $400.00 responsible for these conditions now at this point the biden ministration continues to say what it is said all along which is that it is committed to transparency however when the time comes to actually let that transparency happen we have some pretty strong excuses coming from jen psaki of the white house spokesperson here's what we've heard we are mindful of the fact that we are in the middle of a pandemic we want to keep these kids safe keep the staff safe but we are absolutely committed to transparency and providing access to media to the border patrol facilities and we're working to get that done as soon as we can so this is being set up and you have full access to everything once we get to see you ok and just to be clear how soon will that be mr president i don't know. to be clear now at this point we've got some voices that seem to be determined not to portray what's happening on the border as a crisis this is

a memo from the associated press about how to describe the situation we should avoid or at the least be highly cautious about referring to the present situation as a crisis on our own although we may quote others using that language while the associated press says it may not actually fit the dictionary definition of a crisis a recent poll taken among the u.s. public shows that 76 percent of americans believe the situation on the u.s. border is indeed a crisis the worst charge against them right now is mistreatment of these people these young people and children at the border someone claiming as jen psaki claims transparency is what you'll get and dignity and. specht is what these people get and it's just completely opposite of that they're not in a dignified situation they've got thousands of people sleeping elbow to needy and big toed to nose you know stacked on the floor so tight they have to sleep on their side and they can't roll over and that's a complete embarrassment for the by the ministration they're not even testing those

people and i'm sure thousands of them do have various viral loads and are bringing them across to infect ordinary americans who are not as yet completely vaccinated so that's another great danger that is being forced on the american people in the name of this fraud because they want this story off the headlines when you ask biden when the transparency is going to be delivered by his administration he says i don't know they're up to something else this is not a matter of trying to help impoverished people from from 3rd world countries become americans and reap the benefits of residents here this is not about that. now just how i did an off kilter ship wiping billions off global markets we've got a business show standing by to fill in the blanks in bus starts in moments.