became his drug dealer. manufacturers. several. people under the age of 60 were. blood clots which led to. current starts talks with russia. the european union. warranted. this british. community can't be held responsible for the actions of some individuals are treated with. the statement coming.

through. with police protection. so coming up in the program. raging in france where a politician is under fire for insisting. discussion. 247 news live from moscow this. your company my names you know our top story. several german regions have suspended the use of the oxford astra zeneca. for people under the age of 16 in munich brandenburg state took the step after 31 new reports of unusual blood clots some of which resulted in death our europe

correspondent peter all tell us more. 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 $31.00 cases of blood clots developing in those who'd had the astra zeneca vaccine $29.00 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 were rolled out 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 and it cannot be given out to those under the age of $55.00. there is substantial uncertainty about the benefit of providing astra zeneca $1000.00 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 are we just a couple of weeks on from another scandal involving the astra zeneca vaccine where a number of nations suspended 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 there 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 cheese day we are going to hear from the german chancellor angela merkel she is expected to give a press conference not alongside her health minister yen spawn as they say what the future of astra zeneca being used in germany is at least in the short term meanwhile he has an official has undergone a partial rebranding last week the money fuck sure registered a new trademark for the european market bucks every hour up to now the job was

distributed in the u.s. quote coburg 19 vaccine 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 that scene so by renaming it there 'd with meat may be. different name and not the astra zeneca on the package or 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 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. stria her started talks with russia to buy a 1000000 doses of the sputnik vico vaccine chancellor sebastian kurtz announced the plans which would make austria the 3rd e.u. country to purchase the job the move have received a guarded response from brussels my colleagues research on south korea taylor earlier discussed the story. the 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 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 fos pot in april the final to free in june and it would make auster the thought e.u. country to approve sputnik the use following in the footsteps of hungry. clearly 3 countries was so frustrated with the bloc slow roll out what they accuse on equal distribution that they were willing to go against brussels against brussels in the sense that technically but if he has not been approved by the made up process is underway and whilst officially individual member states can independently read just a fact since for the years brussels has made it clear that if you do that you're on your own. you contra's 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 message and see basis however in this case the government of this country will be 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 seen shortages and infighting already in every single headline and this latest from auster that another member state has lost face 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 he reached out to producers of sputnik the essentially to put an unordered though he did say that he would not be administering the vaccine until it gets given the green light by the may which he anticipates in early 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 a 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 after a wave of criticism in the prime minister have to really come out very strongly and very blunt and to defend his decision to see questions how 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 easy unity is failing the blocks failing to meet vaccine to mom but at the same time it's refusing to accept help from abortion it's almost issuing these 70 threat. to those who take matters

into their own hands apparently all in the name of politics so one really has to ask it's a union that puts politics over public health really a union that's fit for purpose. they want to turn attention on the program to developing story a major armed siege is now underway in a residential area outside moscow police have been trying to detain a suspect in an arms trafficking probe resulting in a shoot out as you can see here live images from the area the host engulfed in flames let's get right up to date what is happening in the t.c. our cities. the scene ilya an incredible situation unfolding reportedly involving britain needs and a rocket launcher bring us up to speed but what's going on here. units more than just incredible because i'm in a very quiet town just outside of moscow several 100 meters away from the

house i cannot get closer clearly the police aren't letting anyone through just because it's way too dangerous like you were saying the house is still on fire which is a massive scare for the local residents as well as the noise that were made being made by the weaponry by the grenade launchers that you mentioned and also the number of police vehicles and armed security personnel swat teams now the most important thing that is that while the house is still on fire it's unclear what is happening what's going on with the shooter whether he is still active whether he is still alive we are getting 1st reports these are not confirmed this is not official information from the police that he has burned alive inside the house but like i'm saying for now we cannot confirm that

now this makes me wonder if the shooter was able to withstand the sea for about 10 hours what kind of arsenal does he have in that home who is this kind of man that we do know that he's 61 we do know that he was a suspect and an arms trafficking case but we don't know anything else pretty much about the man we heard that when police arrived he responded with police 2 grenades so like i'm saying he must have had a real arsenal there because according to some sources he threw 2 dozen grenades at the police officers while he was responding now to somehow. move on with the c. to actually have the house on fire the swat teams had to use rocket and grenade launchers so you can imagine like i was saying what kind of scare it was for the

people living around here because there are homes houses standing right next to each other the streets are quite narrow a very quiet town where nothing like that was supposed to happen now what we do know about an hour ago i was told that the fire brigades want to approach the house to put out the flames just because it's still too dangerous but only about 15 minutes ago i saw 2 fire trucks pass by which could be a sign that now they're ready to put out the flames and hopefully soon we will find out that everyone is now safe and the man is no longer active like i'm saying some reports have said that he's burned alive inside that house and needless to say it is a story we'll be closely following through our correspondent philippe trinkle live the scene earlier thank you. and

a mom in the united kingdom has worn the prime minister that trouble is brewing if more respect isn't shown to muslims insinuating that the country could go to way of france that's after a teacher in northern england left parts of the community outraged 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. sais that he condemns any assertions that promote violence now the teacher who sparked the outrage showed the prophet muhammad caricatures during a class debate and plus for me he and his family are no in hiding after receiving death threats the man has apologized but has been suspended by the school some local muslims are demanding that the school fire him however a petition calling on the school to reinstate him has garnered over 65000 signatures while the u.k.

government has the fent at the teacher. it is never acceptable to threaten or 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 or they obligations to ensure political balance like rage over a similar case in france last october led to the brutal murder of history teacher samuel percy he was beheaded by terrorists after showing cartoons of the prophet muhammad to his pupils cheering at the scotian on ethics and freedom of expression . on the inside one of our competitors was murdered because he thought our compassionate was the victim of an islamist terror attack.

from christian concern and more 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 to tears 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 had this discussion a few times every time we've had this discussion on free speech and debate we have put down to worst of the ideas racism hatred we know it's not ok to be racist against muslims to make the argument is it alright 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 it's got about how it has nothing to do with basis and it's not racism at

all what's happening here is people trying to shut down 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 what i'll do you try and demonize muslims marginalize them we'd have enough you will not win the cultural debate. all easy ok to be played i'm being racist against muslims out there read what else is and you don't get to be offensive this is not the way a free society should he should definitely be defended it's all he's done is wasted 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 forced by more cruel that threatens violence against people. in the program a left wing french politician has said white people should be excluded from the scotians on racism but is such an assertion itself racist we have that story and more for you after the break.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race and of his on the offense very dramatic developments only really and going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. 20 minutes into the program welcome back new york police have launched 2 hate crime probes into a turk's an asian residence which happened on monday both cases were caught on camera the n.y.p.d. 'd ses it brings the total number of asian hate crimes at this year alone in the city to $33.00 or less cross-line to our cities kill em up and who is there for us the footage certainly hard to watch but tell us more

a boy thing what her up in the context of the story it's been a big issue of late. indeed how we have an ongoing wave of anti asian hate crimes here in new york city now the latest incident involved a 65 year old asian woman who was brutally attacked by a heavily built african-american man he proceeded to both punch and kick her to stomp on her quite disturbing footage take a look. now

what seems to bother people the most is that there are several eyewitnesses in the video who didn't intervene did not step up to stop the attacker and that is very similar to something that took place on the new york city subway another anti asian hate crime which video has also been made available of take a look. at the economy. now the new york city police department says there is

a sharp increase in anti asian hate crimes they say there have been $27.00 similar incidents that took place over the course of the last year 12 of which were violent assaults now there has been a conversation among the u.s. public about asian racism we've heard statements from the biden ministration and now we have a children's book publisher that is stepping up and removing one of the books written by children's offer author dave pilkey one of his children's books which was published purported to basically repeat and play up anti asian stereotypes the publisher has removed it here's what we heard from that children's author about his offensive book. it was brute's my attention that this book also contains harmful racial sirrah types and passively racist imagery it wants and e.'s wrong and harmful to my asian readers friends and family and to all asian people i hope you my readers will forgive me and learn from my mistakes that even unintentional and

passive types and racism is harmful to everyone now at this point the publisher has promised that they will be giving the royalties from this book that was deemed to be offensive to entities and non-profits that are dedicated to opposing anti asian racism now in asian american communities throughout the united states there have been community patrols that have been formed and they've been giving elderly asian americans a whistles so that if they are targeted by a racist attacker they can blow the whistle and and maybe you know get the attention of people that are around them and that's one measure that has been taken there's been a number of statements by celebrities that have been made about the need to stand against anti asian racism we've heard from the white house but at this point people are wondering will this be able to have an impact will this wave of anti asian violence be able to be stopped because right now on the streets so we continue to

see footage of what is taking place it's very brutal very disturbing and it doesn't appear to be stopping you know exactly right establishing the fact that whistles may be needed to bring attention to the tax cuts and credible as well kim thanks very much for that artie's killam up in life in newark. there is another cultural debate raging in front say a left wing politician is under fire for saying white people should stay out of racism discussions altogether critics say the remarks are yet another sign of how u.s. styled culture is undermining french values are to charlotte devinsky picks up the story. the empty wine 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 he says it 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 sprung scrambles to deal with a rise in identity politics for those on the right this is seen as an unwelcome american import that's undermining universalist 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 their skin 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 barrett 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 the debate and they say it's not racist you know well it's an absolute core i don't know how people can lead you to my such nonsense we should just mental this racist remarks from scratch. 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 i feel is it's i'm france has always been a country which respects human rights and does not look primarily at the color of people skin. the non pasok oh no it's personally concerned about racism but i think it exists see you know i mean if you dress if it's with the other way around if the national party or right wing m.p. said the black hole are big 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 if i believe bail 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're faced with this everywhere. all right stand by for more great programs getting their start in moments after a quick look at what else is an offer for you over the weekend as they close this is art. china has adjusting to a $400000000000.00 deal with iran this in hopes of gaining influence and oil but is this a good partnership for the region as well as the rest of the world we will discuss

with tobin smith and if you haven't noticed yet the lack of toilet paper in coffee on your grocery shelves well you might in the next few weeks and you can thank the now free cargo ship which spent more than a week blocking the suez canal but what are the other alternatives the next time this happens we're going to show you plus a proverb says i don't hands are the devil's playground but a well known rapper once a you to start wearing the devil's shoes we're going to give you the details as well as discuss whether this is the beginning of mainstreaming satanism in today's society and our $360.00 panel is going to look at the reality of the gun control legislation after the past week of mass shootings and of president biden is going to use executive action to make legal guns today be a crime to own in the future i am scotty no hughes and we're kicking off this week with these a top stories on today's edition of a new.