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became his drug dealer who's to blame patients doctors manufacturers. this hour's headlines story several german cities suspend the use of. people under the age of 60 ports of unusual blood clots which led to deaths. austrian chancellor sebastian current starts talks with russia to buy a 1000000 doses of the sputnik the vaccine by the european union yet approved the job. warranted response or an ominous warning that british states his community can't be held responsible for the actions of some individuals if the muslims aren't treated with more respect not coming after a teacher in yorkshire showed his cartoons of the prophet but we debate the issue.
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through she's into such things let's move along here is that. with police protection. just after 10 at night here in moscow this tuesday march 30th welcome to the news hour an artsy my means you know. several german regions have suspended the use of the oxford. vaccine for people under the age of 60 berlin munich brandenburg state took the step after $31.00 new reports of unusual blood clots some of which resulted in deaths or europe correspondent peter all over reports during a hearing in the city senate the senate health said that this was a precautionary measure that it was being taken following new day. so with relation
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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
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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
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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 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 interesting leave the senecas shot has undergone a partial rebranding last week the manufacturer registered a new trademark for the european market bucks every hour up to the job was distributed in the e.u. as quote covert 19 vaccine. journalist thomas fassbender thinks the timing of the name change is no concern. in so many instances possibly patients
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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 we've made 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 'd a rather unusual move it is even more confusing when you take into account that there was a recommendation not to give asters any care 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
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responsible for it but it really comes at a bad time and austria has started talks with russia to buy a 1000000 doses of the sputnik vico vaccine chancellor sebastian kurtz announced the plants which would make austria the 3rd e.u. country to purchase the job the move has received a guarded response from brussels my colleagues research. earlier the scope of the story. the vaccine 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 puck just over 1000000 doses of the russian foxy is on the cards something that sébastien 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
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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 at the spot in april the final to free in june and it would make auster the e.u. country to approve sputnik the use following in the footsteps of hungry and. 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 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 be in a full responsibility for the possible consequences of its use or message that
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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 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 that he reached out to producers of sputnik the essentially to put in an order though he did say that he would 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
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of criticism when the prime minister had to really come out very strongly and very bluntly 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 in here the team is failing the blocks failing to meet the facts seem to mom but at the same time it's refusing to accept help from the board 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 ask is a union that puts politics over public health really a union that's fit upis. there is
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a major armed siege you know underway in a residential area side moscow police are being trying to detain a suspect in an arms trafficking probe resulting in a shoot out on the hosting gulf in flames after grenades and a rocket launcher were reportedly in use when of a train crew is no the scene in kishi just going through some of the details it's something more akin to a hollywood blockbuster than the goings on in a small residential street tell us what's known at this stage. well you know pretty much the entire house apart from the break walls everything else pretty much has been burnt to ashes but the fate of the 61 year old shooter remains unknown and we have been getting reports from sources in the police that he's burned alive but for that we don't have the official
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confirmation. and yet dramatic scenes here in a town where how it was caused by the shooter it lasted for about 10 hours really something absolutely incredible the man previously not really known to the public at all we know his age we know that he was a suspect in an arms trafficking case but pretty much nothing else and the police showed up at his house for a check up and then instead of letting the them in the man responded by shooting he used a machine gun and reportedly he started throwing grenades at police so you can imagine that he had an entire arsenal of weaponry inside the house there are also reports that there could have been some kind of makeshift facility for making these
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weapons possibly some kind of storage unit and this pretty much makes me ask the question who the hell is he how was he able to withstand a couple of swat teams that were here they couldn't do anything about it surely part of part partially that was because of security reasons because the streets are narrow there were houses round his very home and it was incredibly dangerous it was a massive scare for the local so they couldn't start a full on operation but apparently this is what they had to do they had to start using rocket and grenade launchers because of the grenades that were being thrown back at the swat teams reportedly there were more than 20 of them so thank god nobody was wounded in the shootout in this faceoff was a story in fact i'm talking about the local residents here but one police officer
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had a serious and. 3 he was taken to hospital and this all lasted. till the point when the house was pretty much entirely in flames. initially though the fire brigades were told to stay away from it because it was still too dangerous what if the man was still active what he was still alive now i'm being told that the fire brigades were allowed to put out the flames there and perhaps at this point the only thing there is left to do is to find his body because apparently if the man. had an escape he should have been there somehow he must have been burned alive. and here thanks for time learning that for a c.h. fact you're bringing us more extraordinary the last train go live from the moscow region. ok to the united kingdom or in a mom who has worn the prime minister there trouble is brewing if more respect
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isn't shown to muslims insinuating that the country could go the way of fronts though it'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. he condemns any assertions that promotes violence now the teacher who sparked the parade showed the prophet muhammad karkoc church 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 by the school 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 $65.00 thoughts and i believe at this stage signatures the u.k.
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government they have also weighed in defending the teacher. it is never acceptable to threaten the intimidate teaches we encourage dialogue between parents and schools when he she is a marriage 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 treat you over a similar case in france last october led to the brutal murder of history teacher samuel party he was beheaded by a terrorist after showing those cartoons of the prophet muhammad to his class during a discussion on ethics and freedom of expression. to one of our competitors was murdered because he taught our compassion it was the victim of an islamist terror attack.
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from christian concern a charity in the u.k. . a political and social commentator locked horns over the issues raised. this could be very easily turning into some kind of a power 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
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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
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a cartoon it's got about how it has nothing to do with basis and it's not racism at all so what's happening here is people trying to shut down discussion and using threats of violence really will 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. or is he ok to be poked fun at and be racist against muslims out of the lot of us read what else is and you don't get to be offensive towards us this is not the way a free society should work he should definitely be defended all he's done is raise a 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 mob rule that threatens violence against people you're watching artsy still ahead new york police voiced alarm over a wave of hate crimes against asian americans in the city the latest of which have
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been caught on camera we'll show you the footage after the break. i guess the block clock is really the emerging truth you know time magazine call it the truth machine and it's showing the truth about american politicians that they're full of hot air they have nothing to say they still everyone's money they collect taxes they spend among themselves they treated us out of fashion and they kill people overseas in the name of. is your media a reflection of reality. in the world transformed. what will make you feel safe. tyson nation community. are you going the right way or are you being
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led. by. what is true what is. in the world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the depths. or a maybe in the shallows. 20 minutes into the program welcome back new york police have launched 2 hate crime probes into attacks and asian residents which happened on monday both cases were caught on camera the n.y.p.d. says it brings the total number of asian hate crimes to a run through this year in the city or u.s. corresponding killer picks up the story. we have an ongoing wave of anti asian hate crimes here in new york city now the latest incident involving
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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. 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
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a look. in . to 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 us public about asian racism we've heard statements from
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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 offered 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 it was brought to my attention that this book also contains harmful racial sirrah types and passively racist imagery it was 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 sirrah 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
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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. the world health organization has released a long awaited report on the origins of cope at 19 where the virus came from and how it 1st infected humans and the headline conclusion is they still don't know the
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300 page document say it's 6 trimly unlikely the virus came from a lump the most likely sonority you is from to another species then to humans and one way that it could have made the final leap is via frozen or chilled to meet new reports a further investigation is needed it well for more on the story and this will slide . in the senior clinical lecture of the university of exeter medical school always good to have you on the program so after sending scientists who were conducting months of research there's still the definitive answers in the w.h.o. report why is the do you think. i think some of these reports take a long time if ever there for for example we don't really know all the sudden appearance of hiv or for example ebola having said that we do know
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that the w.h.o. team the investigative team one not a lobbying for almost a year and as a result it does hamper and it does cast doubts on subsequent investigations and i therefore feel we will either find out or we will never find out but the other empirical evidence clearly points to something on toward happened in china in will han province in the vicinity of the large wet market that much we know and that much we mustn't allow to be washed away by history. with the theory that the virus came from the military lab it's been largely by the bunk thorough has and not by the w e w h o researchers is that going to stop though the conspiracy theory. i don't think so and it is unfortunate that china was reticent and not keen on allowing
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investigators in as soon as possible i'm not speculating that this is a lab release what i am sane is that this is definitely of but origin and the wet markets and the farming practices of capturing vide and then keeping them in captivity next to other animals is probably a result of this pandemic sars could lead to a virus in other words the the sars could lead to barbarous arose as a result of going from us to an intermediate creature in that creature if re assaulted and created a new pandemic strain which is now communicable to humans that that i think is what has happened in i don't believe that this is a transfer from frozen foods brought in from somewhere else the science is very easy and straightforward that this is of backed origin and most likely thing is the
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farming practices around with time well what about the question of when covert started then the report says it's probably not more than 2 months before it was 1st detected december 29 i believe but that's not conclusive if it's following to have started earlier would that substantially change the picture. it would cause a cast doubt on the what you would call point of origin i.e. the single point of origin because the single point of origin with the people presenting with a severe risk of 3 illness all started around november 29 teen and that. illness was very quickly identified to be a coronavirus not a influenza virus so you know the summary is something untoward happened around october november $29000.00 in will one province around that market area
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in the world was was waiting for this report really i don't think that's hyperbole to say everybody wants ultras here so they can get on with with normal life but how important is it to establish the origins of the virus if we're going to prevent the next pandemic vital is this. not so white ole what what is white ill is that we do not what's the word lose the wood for the trees we don't create a fog the science is very clear do not mess with the environment if you are going to do practices such as go into the wild capture box hold them in captivity hold them in captivity next to other animals that you also got from the wild then wireless is going to move from the bat to these other animals and in this other animals they can reassert and emerge as a pandemic strain that bit of science is well known and it would be wrong of any
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nation to say no no this doesn't happen therefore we are going to continue with this what you would call dangerous farming practices we need to review what we do otherwise we face creating new are other novel viruses the views of birth playing county a senior clinical lecturer at the university of exeter medical school thank you thank you. a lot or lot for no more programs or rather heads to court.
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