you know the struggle and we're going to send joe to believe the sad fact one of the vaccines available to watch this pandemic appears to pose an increased risk for a certain age. in germany suspends the astra zeneca vaccine for people under 16 over here's a rare but potentially fatal blood clot leaving in limbo those in the age group are to receive the 1st dose of the jack. off air i'm now off line a lot of blocks are tears russian website in the latest crackdown on the channel country calls last year's decision by law is broadcast watchdog to ban 7 channels on leave artemia group. and asian man that is brutally assaulted in the new york subway and an elderly couple of you know women beaten in the city streets

believe this and a string of vicious attacks in the us against the community you look at what's being done to quell the rising tide of hate. a very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at r t h q in moscow thanks for joining us this hour. germany's beleaguered vaccination program has suffered another blow with berlin again suspending the use of the astra zeneca job this time for those under 60 that's left many in that age group who already had their 1st dose in limbo. it's a hit 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 and go to merkel said these concerns could not be ignored alongside uncle 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 keyes's of cerebral vento strombo this 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 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 vi p.r. 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 longer 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 surplused of us i feel that they're now really rushing ahead to fost 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 valid so fast and that we talk about the side effects because sally said 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 falling to pieces. meanwhile astra zeneca intends to rebranded

its vaccine which will now go under the name of vaccines every hour the company expects the switch to be complete in 6 months and that's amid the company's struggle to reassure the public about its safety a number of experts we spoke to believe that the damage to the jobs reputation has already been done. a rebranding right in the midst of such and such a can paint 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 that scene but it may as well backfire infect it may seem like an evasion move like something hiding. you know you would expect very few cases of these terrible blood clots you

know the ones in the in the scientists is in the brain in the venous system the brain and the dissemination coagulation out the body just terrified and they're seen it you know it 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. efficacy raid had to change that so a lot of suspicion about this it's terrible because you're right the thing is is that there are 2000000000 doses for 92 geishas that are need a lot of poor countries are going to get you know the high tech expensive vaccine. and the engine attacks in america show no sign of letting up police in new york city have arrested a man and charged him with a hate crime after an elderly a filipino woman was brutally assaulted on monday morning you may find the following video upsetting.

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. 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 an asian racism we've heard statements from the biden ministration as president biden said during his 1st primetime address and to violence 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

. environments and to divonne safety inclusion and belonging for all asian american native hawaiian and pacific islander communities 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 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 we continue to see footage of what is taking place it's very brutal very disturbing and it doesn't appear to be stopping as kill just mentioned volunteers are giving out whistles to

elderly asian people throughout the u.s. and san francisco the project has been dealt a blow after some 700 whistles meant for distribution were stolen. amid the increased violence targeting asians and america streets some are looking to less direct ways to qana racism for example a publisher has pulled a children's book over its depictions of a martial arts instructor called master wang that some have deemed offensive and a form of passive racial stereotyping we spoke to historian gerald horne about biden's role in the issue you need to realize that by launching this new cold war against china simultaneously helping to create 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 see the political education in united states is not very sophisticated not very high and inevitably bleeds into asian american anti pacific islander

american violence. parties russian website has been taken offline by a number of internet service providers and lot via and the latest crackdown on the outlet in the country falls last year's decision by the lothian broadcast regulator to ban 7 channels and the r.t. media group earlier i spoke to about the ban. as you said the communications agency decided to by. using dubious justification but there it was so it was taken off air by the various broadcasters what has happened now is that the russian so far has been taken off live has been blocked by the internet service providers and the interesting thing is what the u.s. see when they try to access. your internet browser is trying to connect to websites which in the territory of the latvian republic is unlawfully distributing

television programs without some retransmission issued by the national electronic mass media council i mean the excuse itself speaks of desperation because there is every single channel in the world on the internet and none of them have a retransmission permit from from the latvian government moreover there are many channels that broadcast in latvia that don't have a permit latvian government permit to do so but the official justification that we heard last year was sanctions was that the head of the head of his subordinate which if you translated the into english translates as russia today but has no relation no affiliation with r t nevertheless they say that since he is on the european sanctions sushi should r t be banned in europe they've you know it was explained to them at length in short form

and long long form multiple times that r.t. and receives he wouldn't have no relationship they have different heads they are completely different entities nevertheless the latvians have stuck to their guns they have now begun blocking r.t. online as well as the family of channels r.t. channels being blocked from board caustically latvia and the head of r t margarita simonyan herself explained that there's new relationship between resists the warden and r.t. dmitri kissel off is not the head of r.t. he has nothing to do with r.t. to me is the head of the ever see a subordinate i should say they probably just googled. and got russia today the translation i cannot explain this phantasmagoria stupidity by anything else i have been the head of russia today for 15 years since it was founded. well of course this isn't the 1st instance russian media being banned by baltic country is in fact

the russian foreign ministry says coordination between various baltic countries that we lithuania estonia in cracking down and denying russian russian speaking would insist their access to russian media outlets and this is was we saw this in in the studio for example where a slew of journalists with threatened with legal action with criminal investigations unless they quit scrutiny splitting another channel that is being cracked down on in the baltics in the latvia itself there was a big scandal when a slew of workers again journalists were threatened with legal action unless they cut their ties with receipts awarded me tricky set of receipts awarded which sue for our baltic countries have decided to censor the ban we pronounce and fixed you know it 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 their 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 because an edge of nature of this attack is clear. you know it will be interesting to see how how far they do with this because obviously the regime is she would be a brand has a slew of media outlets under its well organized and whether the latvians a stone ians and lithuanians will will go through with this and start bagging all of them well that would be a truly desperate step. a small suburb just to the north of moscow turned into something more closely resembling a war zone on tuesday what started off as a visit by police officers investigating arms trafficking spiraled into a prolonged shootout with russian special forces.

imagine a quiet sleepy town just to the north of moscow wealthy residents walking their pets it could be that this area hadn't seen any crimes in ages but one morning tuesday morning to be precise police arrived to inspect the house they showed up to check on a man who was a suspect in an arms trafficking case i'm sure they weren't expecting a warm welcome but what they got instead was absolutely incredible machine gun fire and grenades being thrown at them for about 7 or 8 hours the swat teams couldn't successfully storm that residential building and that is not a surprise because the shooter was using

a grenade launcher against the security forces it's a miracle that only one of them was injured luckily none of the local residents were hurt the heavy shooting was only over when the house was completely in flames eventually a burned body was found inside the shooter's name was with don if he was a 61 year old pensioner who wasn't known to the public before tuesday judging by some of the pictures that emerged eventually he was a bit of a character to say the least to like to pose for the camera dressed up like a czar toting his gun and hugging a young woman who is apparently his daughter it's also been revealed that more than 20 years ago mr byrd on of was already suspected of robbery and fraud it's been reported that some of the things that he was up to included threatening people to eventually steal their expensive watches and. jewelry so this makes you wonder how

the man never ended up in jail well maybe that's because he was well protected by wild animals that is a joke but i'm only half joking here because actually it turned out that he had turned his property into was with a couple of tigers and the bear the good news is that after the grenade explosions the wild animals are now safe. still had a pull has found that most americans are anxious about losing their jobs over something they've said online because of council culture i'll dig deeper into that and these segments of the program. the world is driven by a dream shaped by one person of those. who

dares thinks. we dare to ask. all of the information in the world when you put it together and prosecute simultaneously it is 0 it adds up to nothing all deal luzhin the differentiation will be obliterated the illusion of making a profit will be obliterated because we're entering into a period called the singularity.

welcome back 19 civilians were killed in a french airstrike on a wedding and mali back and 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 khateeb a 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 absolute wedding party and

those claims back then and also now are still being disputed by the french army which has said it is being sysfs strike and it targeted just hardest now a spokesperson for the military is also described the when reporters being based on fragile testimony and it says it has reservations about methodology 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 are lot of of them ourselves 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 and to move towards reality well not

only has been struggling to contain islam ist insurgency since 2012 the french army being on the ground for a number of years now and 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 are being increasingly taking to the streets to say how unhappy they are about the french economy by. in that and that's because they failed so far to be able to control this insurgency with hundreds of thousands of people having had to flee their homes and thousands of soldiers and civilians already killed in this conflict to date now this damning report by the un introduces outright rejection of it or unlikely to improve its reputation. the notion of council culture is apparently having an impact on people psychological well being a majority of people polled in the us say they fear being fired or reprimanded for what they say online. is

a chilling finding that most people in the country now are afraid they would be fired if they express their real views on social media of the nearly 2000 people surveyed over 60 percent of you growing council culture as a threat to their freedom off of the 4 percent see it as endangering their job security we canvassed opinion on the issue on the streets of new york. people are creative and have a different mindset that artists decide to do different things people you next door neighbors affected the different you that 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 it could really go like a pocket sometimes i think it does care people and it makes people think and maybe for. future you know. inappropriate. the idea of canceling counseling is bad and is not a good way of. creating difficult conversations because difficult conversations are

very important to making difficult topics less difficult. that can really change the way that a person interacts with the world or using it. to also understand i don't like being fed up with having to respond to people so i'm sorry if you're so out it's always more complicated than it's presented. journalist and commentator chadwick more gave us his thoughts on council culture and how it affects 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 business it is from private corporations and most importantly from each other so that makes it interesting and different i think from anything else that that we really experience and culture before it's you know and especially on it's has to come with social media mob

threats to docs to get people wired and it's not a threat on many levels and most importantly it has a chilling effect on public discourse and on people being able to speak their minds to openly. discuss an advocate for things that they can for the things that they truly believe in and the criticism that maybe what's going on in culture and governments and even if you have to hold yourself as lucy just criticize example coulter 'd can do you cancel. lastly we bring you some world news in brief starting in a park in nottingham in the u.k. where a large crowd of young people were seen drinking and dancing throwing beer cans inclining actually they were demobbed happy as they can to ease its lockdown restrictions though in their celebrations they believe me a lot of the rules you can only meet 6 people maximum. spectacular images of

a volcanic eruption in iceland have been captured by drone but all can all has been dormant for nearly 6000 years and it's the 1st eruption on the southwestern peninsula for 900 years thousands of people out flocked to the site to catch a glimpse of the lava despite the prime minister wanting them to stay away. and this lovely spring scene is from southwest china where as alien shrubs are in bloom this garden is one of the largest covering 128 square kilometers as alias turned purple red and pink as a blow and flower until late may. that's been our wrap up of the day's top news for now but don't forget you can always find us on many of your favorite social media platforms like twitter and facebook for up to the minute reports. humanity has never seen such strange natural phenomena befall giant coming to this

appearing in the peninsula. one off or another. one never though to pick up again you have us to get your foot you know limb does look we don't have it that you would. miss one appeared in 2020. how often and where will new creases appear as i described how dangerous own day for humans the small moment is devoted to 12021 russian scientists came quite close to working out what's going on. they built a full scale 3 d. model of the black hole.

problem drugs don't always come from unscrupulous dealers but from pharmacies too in every state in the united states we've seen the very sharp increase in the number of people seeking treatment for addiction to prescription opioids and invited to america under the banner of medicine he persisted with the pain but instead of trying to wean him off though she just goes after dose after dose after dose and really became his drug dealer soon is to blame patients doctors manufacturers all the governments of. kind of financial survival job today was all about money laundering 1st to visit this cash industry different. good this is a good start well we have our 3 banks all set up here maybe something if you're something going to america something overseas or the cayman islands or do all of

these banks are complicit in the tough talk received a softer didn't call and say hey i'm ready to do some serious money laundering ok let's see how we did while we've got a nice luxury watch for max and for stacy oh beautiful jewelry how about. luxury automobile again for max you know what money laundering is highly. watched kaiser of course. this is boom bust the one business show you can support a bit more in washington coming up the u.s. fight against covert 1000 continues to heat up as president biden has announced that nearly all adults will be eligible for a vaccine within the next month straight ahead we have a vaccine expert on hand to break down the process and with the economic

uncertainty from coronavirus ebbing it seems that cripple currencies are here to stay boom bust bend swan is standing by to bring us up to speed on the rapid adoption process but a packed show today so let's dive right in. and we lead the program with the state of the back senior a lot bio and 2nd pfizer will manufacture an additional $500000000.00 doses of their coronavirus back scene this year bringing their total production to 2 point $5000000000.00 doses by the end of 2021 now the announcement came during bio and takes an annual earnings call on tuesday when it announced profits of over $430000000.00 for the 4th quarter compared to $68.00 a $68000000.00 loss for the same period the year prior before the pandemic now the german.