germany implemented a nationwide suspension of the. people to the age of 62 reports of unusual. several fatal cases we've got live reaction from the. talks with russia 1000000 doses of vaccine the european union. cultural debate is raging in france where a left wing politician is under fire for insisting whites should have no say. racism.

to the globe this is your. company my name's you know neal to remain story. a german chancellor angela merkel has announced a nationwide suspension of the astra zeneca vaccine for people under the age of 60 after reports of unusual blood clots which in some cases lead to. our europe correspondent peter broke with the latest earlier. it was a session in the state parliament of the city of burlington where the the senator for health said that the astra zeneca vaccine was going to be suspended for use in hospitals here in the german capital it was also then extended to the state of brandenburg which surrounds berlin also with munich china being in well we've just heard from angela merkel she's just finished in the last few minutes alongside

health minister yet inspiron addressing the nation's press here in berlin she's confirmed that's a nationwide suspension now on anybody under the age of 60 receiving the astra zeneca vaccine angela merkel said that the concerns about the links between the vaccine and blood clots potentially fatal blood clots could not be ignored she said we all know that vaccination is the most important tool against coronavirus for saying that faith that trust in vaccines was equally as important as the vaccine working itself. what we know from yen spawn the health minister a lot was passed on to him about where the vaccination program would go next and he started by talking about the situation at hand he called it a. big setback that this had come out regarding the astra zeneca vaccine

he said that $31.00 cases of blood clots would be confirmed in germany those had all been people who had received the astra zeneca vaccine of the no confirmation or a direct link between them all that they have in common is they had blood clots and they had the vaccine out of those 31 it on the 29 a women 9 of those blood clots proved to be fatal yet inspiron was keen to push the fact that the astra zeneca vaccine is a good vaccine in terms of fighting covert 19 that it does work he said that if those under the age of 60 wanted the i. specifically they should speak to their physicians and try and work out what was going on there he did try and put a positive spin on all of this vaccination program across europe as we just heard from our colleagues there not going particularly quickly here in germany there's been a lot of criticism over how it's been handled the end spawn trying to spin this one in a positive way saying that that would mean that was more vaccines for the over sixty's

to be vaccinated with the astra zeneca job in fact he went on to quote statistics that have come out of both scotland and england where of course many many more people have been vaccinated with the astra zeneca job saying that it showed the to be much more effective than pfizer but on takes a vaccine in those over the age of 60 chancellor merkel was also asked where all and what she would be having when it came to vaccines the chancellor said that she would get her vaccine when it was her turn to have a vaccine didn't hint what particular job she would be going for the chancellor is over 60 though under her own suspension would be eligible for taking the astra zeneca job. when it comes to the vaccination program as a whole the yen spawn said that in the next quarter when they're expecting perhaps johnson and johnson vaccine to go online for deliveries to arrive he expects

a clear difference to be seen in the vaccination program but they've confirmed the suspension of the use of astra zeneca on those under the age of 60 what happens to those who've already had their 1st job who are 60 and under well they they have 2 more days on the 1st of april they'll be told whether or not they're going to get that 2nd. vaccine germany isn't the only country though that's had issues with the astra zeneca job canada has also announced a suspension on giving the vaccine to its citizens under the age of $55.00 in canada the national advisory committee for vaccines in that country saying they couldn't take the risk. 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 well this is just the latest thing

involving the astra zeneca vaccine it was just a few weeks ago that around 20 european nations as well as couldn't trees in central america africa and asia suspended the use of the job over concerns about blood clots that prompted a big investigation by the european medicines agency it was a big press conference that took place and cook the director of the a.m.a. came out and said astra zeneca was fine to be used that allowed a lot of countries including germany to start using the job again well we also heard from the world health organizations then who said that the benefits of having the astra zeneca vaccine far outweighed any risks a different message coming out of germany on tuesday evening no chancellor merkel saying that the vaccine will now no longer be used on anybody under the age of 60 following well concerns over links to blood clots. let's go live now to germany for reaction from political analyst be john tarver sali beach and always

good to see you european countries how to nish we raised concerns over whether the astra zeneca shop was safe for older people know the suspensions only apply to andras sixty's it's all a little confusing isn't. yes confusion over the regime in germany and there are a profusion and little every aswell and the car has to die looked very confused tatts and this is not going to. the willingness of the people who are already reluctance to take the dangerous after that you know it seems and it actually will increase their reluctance to get these banks because what we have seen now is that the regulatory body. is not to trust it is just a couple of days ago that is that there's no senior say and now the federal

government has stopped basename people under the age of 60 because of concerns tried and doctors and one of the leading hospitals in germany this was forced on the government. by doctors and hospitals and showing that refused to that name their staff with astra zeneca astra zeneca in london will both say this is something of an overreaction from the german government they'll point guard both the w.h.o. the as you say the european medical medicines agency still think after senate is find to be used saying that the benefits outweigh the risks what would you say in response. well we know that the european medical medicines agency it cannot be france it is headed by an arrow from a long it's for european pharmaceuticals associations and their interest is nots the safety of the consumer us the interest is only the profits of your big pharma

companies and that is also why much safer way to seed such as it is neat i'm not allowed in japanese even though your east and your have these i using them successfully and i personally know many people in germany that hat relatives and families and you're happy that they want to go there in order to get that much saved. and not be vaccinated with ask the senate who are some of the be fire companies they see because these vaccines. is not saving us kill it he will they have been it may come from germany and there are many many people there. that might not live outside and then they might never recover and then the scene is supposed to save people not kill her would you assess germany's vaccine right so far. it has been terrible it is been terrible and it started

with the fact that they were. haggling over price of c. that when mr big pay a lot more for the big c. sanders that pay about $200.00 to press now. the reason why it has been delayed is because it happened over dollar us for a $60.00 so it was incompetence she had confidence at all levels of the administration it is actually this terrible situation and now many people are waking up and. i'm an arche hole in the polls there is growing content through our germany and myrtles days are. the thoughts of political analysts be john tells us ali live on the program thank you. austria started talks with russia to buy a 1000000 doses all of the sputnik the covert taxi chancellor sebastian kurtz and

once the plants which would make austria the 3rd e.u. country to purchase the job and other moves received a guarded response from brussels my colleagues. earlier discussed the story the ease of vaccine rollout continues to descend into chaos appetite for the sputnik the job continues to grow we've just heard straight from the austrian chancellor that apart just over 1000000 doses of the russian faxing is on the cards something that sébastien cuts that 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 affective and safe not where it came from. now if the deal goes through they would be delivered in 3 stages starting with the 1st part 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. 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 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 when the management 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 all for 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 hungry. what other countries are lining up and showing interest and support and agree well 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 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 the unity is failing the blocks failing to meet vaccine demand 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 for purpose. for the story we're closely following a left wing politician in front says under fire for saying white people should stay out of racism discussions critics say the remarks are yet another sign of how us style walk culture is undermining french values or to charlotte dubin ski 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. it exists it exists this reunions exist no food reprove a 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 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 is. 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 on by out who said that she had merely understood what it discussion group it 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 horror i don't know how people can lead you to my such nonsense we should dismantle this racist remarks from scratch. what about if you don't you know in your for me it's not acceptable to exclude white people from meetings i view that as racist. and of consulates i think it's perfectly legitimate to exclude white people from the meetings because it would 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's skin. just because 70 of death and the numbers are oh no it's personally concerned about uncivilized racism but i think it exists see you know i mean if you dress you if it were the other way around if the national party or rightwing m.p. said that black or arabic people should be quiet during an event dedicated to the

victims of terrorism that's 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 is 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 we build it here with our t. still ahead new york police have voiced alarm over a wave of hate crimes against asian americans in the city the latest of which have been caught on camera we'll bring you that footage after the break.

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day or. week to ask. a resident of the moscow region turned to his neighborhood into a war zone and over the past few hours what started off as an attempted to respond police on his house spiraled into an all out ending with a devastating fire the operation is now over but it is not yet clear whether the lone gunman survived the tranquil reports from the scene. the house pretty much everything apart from the break walls has been burned to ashes but the fate of the man who caused so much chaos and havoc in

a small town just to the north of moscow remains unknown we have heard reports from sources within the police that he burned alive inside that building but for that for now we don't have official confirmation this was a real scare for the locals 1st of all the sound the sound of gunfire the sound of grenade launchers the amount of security equipment here the number of officers fully armed something completely extraordinary for a towel like that and the siege that lasted for about 10 hours this makes me ask the question what kind of man was he that shooter what we know is that he's 61 year old but previous see he was unknown to the public and also this makes me wonder what kind of arsenal was there inside that house that he was able to withstand the siege for so long according to the officials police were in the middle of

a probe into an arms trafficking case and they showed up for a check up at the man's case and instead of letting the officers in the 61 year old shooter began to shoot at them from a machine gun and reportedly threw 2 grenades at them that was the point when it became clear that a group of police officers simply wouldn't be able to deal with the situation so swat teams were called in but the man didn't give up he continued to respond with fire and he continued to throw grenades luckily none of the local residents were hurt in this but i can tell you that one security officer was seriously wounded in the leg he's been taken to hospital but i'll tell you what the siege only ended after the swat teams used when they'd longer serves. as a result of that the house was completely on fire and it was incredibly dangerous for the fire brigades because again it was unclear what kind of arsenal of weaponry

was inside that house again god knows how this man was able to do what he was up to a notice which led to this massive unexpected scare thank god without many consequences. new york police launched to hate crime probes into attacks on 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 around 30 in the city this year are u.s. correspondent killam up and reports a warning younger viewers may find some of the footage of setting. we have an ongoing wave of anti asian hate crimes here in new york city now the latest incident involving 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 a look. seriously

. in. 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 the by administration as president biden said during his 1st primetime address and asian violence and seen a phobia is run it's un-american and it must stop today president biden is announcing new actions to respond to the increase in acts of violence and to

advance safety inclusion and beeline for all asian americans native hawaiian and pacific islander communities 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 reported 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 in wars and ease 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. a group faded from involuntary manslaughter that's what friends foreman and serve v.a.

has been feeling 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 calls at least 500 deaths 2 to heart problems the bill being on the market for over 3 decades and was used by 5000000 people we heard from someone who took the drug a prosthetic or up. 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 . the manufacturer has been slapped with a fine of almost $3000000.00 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 skeletal which comes amid rising concerns over the lobbying power of pharma companies surveyed say as it was all aware of the adverse side effects until the trial started 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 and 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 find 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. is our lot for this news are about to remember to give us a following social whenever you see our logo you will be bored or isn't. same wrong. just told. me you get to shape out just. the ticket and engagement equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground.