so join us in the. in the shallows. it is undoubtedly a sad fact that one of the vaccines available. to pose an increased risk. germany suspends the astra zeneca vaccine for people under the age of 60 over fears of rare potentially fatal blood clots those who have already received the 1st. brutally assaulted in the new york subway elderly filipino woman beaten in the city streets the latest in a string of vicious attacks in the us against the community. a rising tide. and now offline. website in the latest crackdown on the channel in the country.

is broadcast watchdog to 7 channels under the r t v media group. thanks so much for joining us you're watching international. germany's beleaguered vaccination program has suffered yet another blow with berlin again suspending use of the astra zeneca job this time for the under 60. people already had their 1st dose in the. here's the hits right for the 2nd dose of astra zeneca for those under 60 who have already had the 1st dose the standing committee for vaccination will take a formal position by the end of a trail. acknowledging the news that had come through from the robert cock institute the public health body here in germany regarding potential links between

the vaccine and blood clots and those that had taken it i'm going to merkel said these concerns could not be ignored alongside angola merkel was health minister yen spawn at the press conference he described the news coming out about astra zeneca job as a major blow is this all of it is undoubtedly a sad back that one of the vaccines available to us for this pandemic appears to pose an increased risk for a certain age group 31 pieces of cerebral vento stromboli had been reported after vaccination with the astra zeneca jab 9 of which were unfortunately fetal. there was an attempt to put a positive spin on the news by health minister yen spawn though he said that the fact that this vaccine wouldn't be used on the under sixty's meant there was more of it to vaccinate the over sixty's it's not just germany that had concerns over astra zeneca though also in canada they've suspended its use there it's for those

under the age of $55.00 that will be no longer getting it that's after the national advisory committee on vaccines decided it wasn't worth the risk there was 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. i-t. coursing particularly at the low estimated rates it's only a couple of weeks since the last scandal involving astra zeneca and links to blood clots that saw suspensions of the vaccine across europe as well as in central america or in africa and. asia as well it prompted an investigation by the european medicines agency and ultimately a big press conference by the director m.r. cook in which he said that the astra zeneca of oxy was fine for use a lot of countries where that prompted a lot of countries to repeal that suspension including germany langley merkel has said that the country is going back on the reversal of the suspension and the astra

zeneca vaccine will now no longer be used for anyone under the age of 60 across germany. i completely understand being cautious but the problem of stopping the vaccination all the time is that we are already so far behind compared to the rest of the world and that is very disappointing because there are many restrictions and vaccines are the only thing we're trusting so we need to receive clear messages for citizens not to get confused it's helped us give us i feel that they're now really rushing ahead to fast if you look at the side effects they're very rare if you read the information leaflets of aspirin or ibuprofen or any other those have much more serious side effects and we swallow those daily more or less. i think it is very very good that the vaccines were as a valid so fast and they would talk about the side effects because talented that information would be so much worse but i also think that due to everyone having an opinion on it now it kind of make the whole vaccination process fall into pieces. meanwhile astra zeneca has rebranded its funk scene which will now go under the

name vaccine amid the company's struggle to reassure the public of his safety but a number of experts believe the damage to the jumps reputation that's already been done. a rebranding right in the midst of such an such a can pain is something of a rarity and you have rebranding complains but usually not in the midst of a crisis 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 panic and refuse to accept that vaccine but it may as well backfire infect it may seem like an evasion move like something in hiding so it may really carry a rather negative effect in this case and a 1000000 people you know you would expect very few cases of these terrible blood

clots you know the ones in the in the sinuses in the brain in the venous system in the brain in the dissemination coagulation route the body just terrifying and the scene that you know in younger women so with this. it's very hard to commit to the public now because now you know they see faulty vaccine data you know used the wrong dose they corrected the dose that they had the wrong. figure sirree they had to change that so a lot of suspicion about this it's terrible because you know rick the thing is is that there are 2000000000 doses or 92 geishas that are need a lot of poor countries are going to get you know the high tech expense of x.e. . attacks on asian americans show no sign of letting up police in new york are investigating 2 assaults on asian residents that occurred on monday one of the victims was an elderly filipino woman who was brutally beaten by her male assailant yelled racial slurs i must warn you you may find this video coming up disturbing.

you are. and 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. in

. 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 an asian racism we've heard statements from the biden ministration as president biden said during his 1st primetime address and to violence and said a full day is wrong it's un-american and must stop today president biden is announcing new actions to respond to the increase in acts of and to aid. violence

and to develop safety inclusion and belong in for all asian american native hawaiian and pacific island to come in h.s. 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 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 for the job what is taking place it's very brutal very disturbing and it doesn't appear to be stopping us kelly mentioned volunteers are giving out whistles to elderly asian americans throughout the u.s.

and some francisco to the project has been dealt a blow after some $700.00 whistles meant to be distributed was stolen amid the increased fathers tugs and asians in america's streets some are looking to less direct ways of countering racism for example a publisher pulled a children's book over depictions of a martial arts instructor called must the wall some deemed offensive in the form of passive racial stereotyping he spoke to historian gerald horne about joe biden's role in that issue. he needs to realize that by launching this new cold war against china he simultaneously helping to create fertile conditions for the rise of violence it seems to me that for the foreseeable future we're going to have difficulties because china's ascendancy is not going away any time soon and i'm afraid to say the political education in united states is not very sophisticated not very high and inevitably bleeds into anti asian american anti pacific islander

america violence. 1900 were killed in a french strike on a wedding in mali in january of this year those are the findings of a new u.n. report into the incident. menas mays able to confirm a bed in celebration at the site of the strike had brought together $100.00 surveillance at least $22.00 people including 3 of the suspected cuttable sermon members present at the gathering were killed by the french strike on the 3rd of january 2021 in bhante this u.n. report centers on a french air strike that took place at the beginning of january it says 900 civilians were killed as well as 3 armed men when the french warplanes struck me a village co-parenting waterless sorrow region now that confirms the claims from villages at the time he said that these planes struck at a wedding party and those claims back then and also now are still being disputed by

the french army which is said is it being pursued i say it's right and it is targeted just harvests now a spokesperson for the military is also described the when reporters being based on fragile testimony and it says it has reservations about mythology that was used by the un it maintains that it was targeting a terrorist group so the fact that france won't accept this report to be the truth has been get some in the country there. of demosthenes it is time for france to stop telling lies because they accuse the few lannie community of being spokespersons for jihadist or of being organizations that spread lies or rumors i would simply say it is high time the malian armed forces especially the mali military authorities begin to tell the truth to move towards reality well not only has been struggling to contain is the most insurgency since 2012 the french army being on the ground for now what is there now has more than 5000 soldiers that the

former ringback colonial power in the region hasn't always had an easy life we know that people been increasingly taking to the streets to say how unhappy they are about the french economy be. and that's because they failed so far to be able to control this insurgency with hendryx at saracens people having had to flee their homes and thousands of soldiers and civilians already killed in this culture up to date now this damning report by the u.n. insurance is out right which is actually a bit or unlikely to prove its reputation. artie's russian website has been taken offline by a number of internet service providers in latvia and the latest crackdown on the outlet in the country follows last year's decision by the latvian broadcast regulator to ban 7 channels in the r.t. media group our correspondent against the years following this story live in the studio good afternoon to you miranda 1st of all what is happening here while

they've are as you mentioned after blocking the translation broadcast by r.t. in its family of channels they have now begun blocking artie's website online through r.t. russian for example now is blocked in latvia and this is what viewers see when they try to visit the web site your internet browser is trying to connect to a website which in the territory of the latvian republic is a more fully distributing television programs without a retransmission issued by the national electronic mass media council. last year latvia's communications watchdog council choose to block r.t. here on the website it now says view as you see this message that r.t. doesn't have a permit to broadcast in latin plenty of channels in latvia that broadcasts there

but don't have a permit from the state especially on live every single channel in the world nevertheless this is where the confusion comes out that they've tried very hard to block r.t. 1st with this reason on the website that it doesn't have a permit earlier it was because our g.'s somehow is under european sanctions when it when it isn't and it's been abundantly obvious that it isn't the latvians have said that the head of receiver is subordinate which is a russian news holding media its head its general director. of is of the european sanctions but if you translate the warden a translator is russia today except it isn't these are 2 completely different entities nevertheless the latvians despite being explained to these are completely different entities they have chosen to restrict artie's access and broadcasts in latvia by arguing that it's under sanctions when it is

the military to see office not the head of r.t. he has nothing to do with r.t. to be the head of the ever see a subordinate they probably just google to receive subordinate and got russia today to translation i cannot explain this phantasmagoric stupidity by anything else i have been the head of russia today for 15 years since it was founded. there had been hopes that in the years since they announced this decision that latvia would come to its senses and you know here receive what so many people and lawyers had been say but they haven't they haven't they've chosen to go ahead with this these i would say a desperate measure judging by the excuses that they make i've got this right the also been incidents in the past of baltic states banning russian media where those in latvia itself previously there have been cases of journalists working for

sputnik which they had cracked down on those were targeted with criminal investigations so they were threatened 1st and then they were investigated criminally for working with sputnik and for working with subordinates in a stone year there had been a case where journalists working for sputnik were threatened again with legal action unless they they stopped working for sputnik unless they quit the company this is part of an effort to shut down sputnik and the russian foreign ministry has come out woman said where are all your standards european standards of press freedom and why is there so little reaction from authorities who realize what's going on. you know it's we continue to see repeated violations of international the geisha instant shoot press freedom and baltic countries where they hide and there is a phobia and intention to get rid of the russian information presence in the media

space by any means possible and talking about the attacks by latin lithuania and estonia and officials on the t.v. channels included in the r.t. media group the cordon aged nature of this attack is clear. nevertheless there is very little communication and feedback from the stone in the forty's so there's no telling which way this is going to go with the might many more russian networks and media outlets are going to be bad because after all the head of. it is the head of the whole branch of russian media outlets ok well thanks for bringing the inside track on the story. and thanks you guys staying with r.t. still plenty to come this hour including a poll was found that most americans are anxious about losing their jobs of a something they've said online that's because of social council culture will be digging deeper into that story after the short break.

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thing. we ask. welcome back a sleepy suburb just to the north of moscow turned into something more closely resembling a war zone on tuesday what started off as a visit my police officers investigating all trafficking spiraled into a shootout resulting in a fire and the death of the suspect. correspondent

was reporting from the scene there yesterday on that story thanks for joining is. quite dramatic take us through what happened. hey there well imagine a sleepy quiet town just to the north of moscow like you were saying wealthy residents it could be that it hadn't seen any crimes in ages but then one morning it was chews day morning police show up to check that house to check on a suspect in an arms trafficking case and what they get in response is machine gun fire and also grenades being thrown at them that's something that they didn't expect and it was immediately clear that just a group of police officers wouldn't be able to deal with it so swat teams were called then but for about 7 or 8 hours they couldn't do anything pretty much with

the shooter they couldn't successfully storm that house and that is not a surprise given the fact that the man who barricaded himself inside that building began using a grenade launcher against the security forces so that is actually a miracle that pretty much nobody was hurt and that the only person who was seriously wounded was one of the security officers and the legs it was a massive scare for the locals with all the noise from the shooting from the grenades the flames narrow streets houses standing right next to each other and i can tell you that the shooting was all over when the house was on fire eventually a dead body was found inside but that's not the only thing that police discovered

inside a real stockpile of arms boxes upon boxes of guns grenades cartridges as well as historical guns so little. surprised that the men didn't want to let the police officers inside you know just looking at pictures of that stash of weapons or the grenades there which of course is as you said why police were there in the 1st place they were investigating possible arms trafficking what else have we learned in the 24 hours since about this this suspect this gunman. well this man wasn't really known to the public that much before the incident so to say on tuesday he's a 61 year old pensioner with quite a background i should say 1st of all just take a look at his pictures judging by some of these photos he was quite a character who like to pose for the camera dressed up like

a czar toting a gun with the young woman on his arm with some reports with other details emerging about the man we understand that he was up to some very dangerous stuff about 2 or 3 decades ago in the ninety's difficult times for russia these years it's believed that he was a suspect in a number of robbery cases some have said that he was attacked attacking people trying to steal jewelry and expensive watches from them so it's unclear how he never ended up in jail up until this point well clearly. this is something that the investigators will have to look into now there's also something else that really shocked reporters when they found out that he was

actually holding while the atom all's including a number of tigers in a bear so there was even zeus so again quite a character but what i can tell you the good news is that the atoms are safe ok many thanks for the data trying to bring us all the details that. i think on the notion of cancel culture is having an impact on people psychological well being majority of people polled in the u.s. say they fear being fired or reprimanded for what they say online. it is a chilling finding that most people in the country now are afraid they would be fired if they expressed their real views on social media of the nearly 2000 people who were surveyed more than 60 percent viewed growing council culture as a threat to their freedom 54 percent saw it as endangering their job security we canvassed opinion on this issue on the streets of new york. he part created to have

different mindsets some artists decide to do different things people your next door neighbors that's a different thing than you might not agree on i don't for they used to ruin their entire lives over what they think in their mind even though it is harsh and they can really go i had a pocket some time i think it does scare people and it makes people. maybe. you know. inappropriate action. the idea of canceling handsewing is back and is not a good way of. creating difficult conversations because difficult conversations are very important to making difficult topics less difficult. to really change the way that a person interacts with the world or using. to also understand all my b.f. had opened up until i responded people. thought it's always more complicated when

it's presented. journalist in common with a child with mole gave us his thoughts on council culture and how it effects people in the past we've always sort of focused on the government and focused on protecting the constitution but of course in this in this day and age the threats are coming not really from the government they're coming from businesses from private corporations and most importantly from each other so that makes it interesting and different i think from anything else that we've really experiencing culture before it's you know and it's actually a lot of it has become a social media mob being and threats to docs to get people fired and. not a right to agree on many levels and most importantly it has a chilling effect on public discourse and i'm people being able to speak their minds to openly discuss and advocate for things that they can for the things that they truly believe in and their criticisms and maybe what's going on in culture. governments if you. just are criticizing your full quarter busy gender you

careful. let's finish off for you it's news in brief starting in a park in nottingham in the u.k. this is where a large crowd of young people was seen drinking dancing scuffling throwing beer cans and climbing trees that's because they were digging bob happy country easing it's not down restriction but in the celebrations they would likely flouting the rule just been introduced you can only meeting groups of up to 6 people i assume spectacular images of a volcanic eruption in iceland captured by a drone volcano has been dormant for nearly 6000 years it's the 1st eruption on the southwest peninsula the 900 years and you can understand thousands of people were flocking to the site to try to catch a glimpse of what was happening even though the prime minister of the country warn them to stay away. our fish with a lovely spring seen from southwest china shrubs in bloom in the garden this one of the largest in the country covering 120 square kilometers azaleas if you didn't

know turn purple red and pink as they bloom flower through till like. they are hope you enjoyed that us all from a for today to stick around michael and jacqueline vergel be here with updates for you in 30 minutes. in the 1920 s. and thirty's several 100 african-americans moved to the soviet union and many of their descendants still live in russia. or going at the risk because they know no rush for us though i put a stop yes it got chose for on things on your way. back home black american suffered from racism and a complete lack of prospects. is that not the smug the real lybia losing shows one by else a store or by doing. so they decided to leave everything behind and start a new life in a country about which they knew almost nothing at all some of the are pure groups

who were to prove you're in the united. around great crowd. to moulay a dwarf you you're going to go through and now almost a 100 years later history is repeating itself my great grandfather george time and went to russia. on probable worst cry to go anywhere why not me. why don't i come here. please.