in the headlines on r t the european medicines agency urges countries to keep using the astra zeneca chrono virus back scene insisting it's safe also launching a probe into dozens of new cases of severe love problems. just because. i know every stage of this epidemic we might say to ourselves that we could have we made mistakes this is true. a stark admission of failure is in the handling of the kobe crisis by the french president as the country's death toll nears 100008 chrono is forced to impose a 3rd national law. also this hour there is fears of a nursing exodus in the u.k. as a poll reveals one in 4 and they trust workers is more likely to quit now than in 2020

but many citing exhaustion from the pandemic we speak to one british nurse. we've had t.v.'s that needs to be increased but the cost of living baby has gone no white she's had to increase the east side much in the nurses and up to the government to help increase the weight. and a year of restrictions millions dead and the origin of corona virus is still a mystery after a long awaited report the move leaves many questions unanswered we ask a russian expert on that mission and why it's taking so long. a very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at our change queue in moscow thanks for joining us this hour. the european medicines agency is throwing its support behind the astra zeneca coated vaccine despite fears over severe blood clots the regulator is launching get another investigation but insists countries

should keep using the shot. according to the current scientific knowledge there is no evidence that would support restricting the use of the vaccine in any population 2 weeks ago on the 18th of march we gave an interim update of the assessment and we concluded after the time that the benefit of the after turning back in preventing kogut 19 with a. risk of hospitalized patients and their outweigh the risk of side effects and are not changed another mentioned previously a causal link with the vaccine has not yet been progress but it is possible their analysis is still ongoing. artie's nicky aaron joins us in the studio again for the details on that so there seems to be a difference of opinion between the mayor and european states on the safety of the asteroids and shark tell us more about this hijacking the astra zeneca saga

continues the latest being the head of the european medicines agency insisting there is no evidence to suggest the best mode of action here would be to restrict the use of the astra zeneca vaccine this of course comes just days after germany decided to limit distribution dysart distribution of the job citing concerns over blood clots now worldwide there have been 62 cases of this rare blood clotting condition which has prompted a number of european countries to temporarily halt use of the vaccine in germany the medical regulator there has recorded 31 cases of this rare brain clots all of the cases were in people younger than 63 orbits who were women and 9 people have died and the chancellor angela merkel has said that this is data that her government has cancer ignore. then the game comes through and the standing committee for vaccination publish new recall mendacious in the future use of the extra senate vaccination i quote on the basis of the currently available will be

limited evidence and with a view to depend demick situation the standing committee for vaccination recommends the use of the extra seneca kovac $1000.00 vaccine and those over 60 it's application for under sixty's is still possible a doctor's discretion and individual acceptance of the risks. what does all this mean for the vaccination campaign well it's just another setback in the progress really the blocks of vaccine rollout has been heavily criticised for being sluggish and this is mainly due to their flocks that they just don't have a sufficient supply of vaccines only 4 percent of the books population has been vaccinated so far and the world health organization has really criticized this and said you know the block really needs to get a move on vaccines present our best way out of this pandemic however the rollout of these vaccines is an acceptably slow we must speed up the process by

ramping up manufacturing reducing barriers to administering vaccines and using every single vial we have in stock mel. this is brussels also receives criticism from pfizer which is blames the e.u.'s stringent export controls for delaying. its now 5 is that the drug maker which has a base in belgium supplies britain and 70 other countries around the world so we're seeing delays upon delays here so perhaps the perfect timing to introduce a helping hand in the form of an alternative vaccine but what if the vaccine is russian now the european medicines agency has been evaluating the for several weeks now but there are some countries that just aren't willing to wait any longer and started ordering and some even started using the sputnik the vaccine hungary and slovakia are on board all story of being the latest european country to alter the vaccine and a recent poll in germany as shows that over half the country want its government to

also follow suit now so we all remember the negative press surrounding sputnik the vaccine was 1st unveiled but now it seems that using sputnik the might be the the logical answer to all of these problems. aaron breaking down the story for us thank you. we're now going to bring and live martin dolls are a member of the humber parliament from the left party to discuss this story further now what do you make of the latest reassurances coming from the a.m.a. . you think through that they're going to be part of your program yes if we look at what is going on in the moment i think we need every work seeing which is. also a little too little to use and which is. secure so when we see that as true as in there as a lot of doubts it's so we should take the alternatives and i think 'd you may

short of. who are you 8 and then 2 will accept that school being we all agreed in google that scenes which i was sure were unsafe should be used i think the population is very insecure at the moment and i think it is a good sign that the russians will prevent people to see that house is not a national or not an enemy picture case but it's sure be prepared and safe. everyone germany has gone ahead and suspended the astra zeneca job for those under 60 after 31 cases of those unusual blood clots most european countries have kept going do you think that your government has overreacted or are they taking the right path. i think in this case my government at least took the right step because if there is doubts about that stance and it also says

like lots we shouldn't take that what's even more ships asked us also it will take into account the possibility so i think in this case the german government is in any way the german government is in kansas and as well there's all. like. limited to the present of german citizens who have been invited seen no there should be you sitting up there should be measures in measures to 'd secure the or else of people instead of to is to secure the profits of the industry well of course an increase of vaccination across the e.u. is what everyone is hoping for but if astra zeneca is then taken off the board one that slowed things down even further yes possibly but if you may want to. set. up.

by the. minister which is. present. to the united nations so there is possibilities only because of political stupidity sorry to say that. the health of the people is not or for who and all responsible 'd. as we all know france is going back down into another a lockdown after a certain cases and after a very slow and i can campaign there are there fears that all of the same thing could happen in germany now that astra zeneca is not being it made available to a large amount of the population. or when we look at this. doesn't it guys not. i don't if i get a vaccination i would. call. from different states of matter

and seeing what will biotech is. interfering in the d.n.a. what little i don't like so there is possibilities and there is many elements as well from madagascar which proved incentive. to help to overcome the planet and we should take into account everything but we shouldn't use something like us as an actor even though there is 'd no shortage of black scenes which can cause death so we should be responsible and can be clear responsibility i think demick there should be no more of nationalism and conference between different problems but the shop be the politics internationally in favor of the people and the health of the people and if the governments are responsible. not will use the possibilities which are there and which are approved white collar before it sound with the only forwards to the russian scientists and for that

testing was we so wes it differently between a lot testing science a science science is nothing national so we should i think we should. in this situation that governments overcome that warm limits of thinking sorry to say that i mean what a lot of people think like that because they see that it's possibilities and the governments for instance the european governments still take that possibilities into account and there's something very very irresponsible. martin those are member of the hamburg parliament from the left party thank you for sharing your thoughts with us today. the french president admits he made mistakes throughout the pandemic in a televised address to the nation and i know micron has announced a 3rd nation wide lockdown as cobra cases soar intensive care beds are filling up and the country's death toll you know 100000 he said the situation left him with no

other choice. the city i know that at every stage of this epidemic we might say to ourselves that we could have done better that we made mistakes all this is true we all need to make an additional effort over the coming months this is what i ask of us collectively tonight. the new lockdown measures will be extended from $1000.00 areas to all of mainland friends from saturday this means a nationwide curfew beginning at 7 pm will be imposed and travel between regions will be banned the french president has also says schools will be closed for at least 3 weeks and announce additional policing to ensure that no more than 6 people gather at one time. the measures introduced by the french president come as a complete u. turn to his previous decision not to lock down in january he was criticised at the time by scientists and hospital bosses. i say to the government do it now but do

it now do it for a shorter time but do it. right not to implement a lockdown in france at the end of january because we didn't have the explosion of cases that every model predicted france's president is without a doubt an educated man emmanuel macro and through through the country's top institutions before making a mark in both the private or public sector he then became fronts is youngest ever president i mean it's a pretty impressive resume asking people trade himself as a man he knew when to take advice needed temple is important at this time by following the advice of scientists as we've just done to ensure the continuity of own democratic life and our institutions but now it seems being top dog isn't quite enough not grown his throwing himself into an entirely new discipline the president has acquired real expertise in health issues it is not an inaccessible subject for

an intelligent person like him considering the important time he has dedicated to it for several months not cause aids to even be declared that he has become an epidemiologist despite not having a scientific background these claims over groans expertise on health issues. also rubbed expert so the wrong way here michael because you don't let me mr president of the republic and in the framework of the pandemic just like all heads of states he has become interested in epidemiological data yes to put his nose to the grindstone he's obliged to take notice of trends but that doesn't make him an epidemiologist of course good for all those that talk about epidemiology and among them we can find heads of states like president mccrone who talks about epidemiology just like we talk about politics when we talk about sculpture or box music but then not necessarily sculpture artists or musicians. and

britain there are fears of a nursing exodus after a survey revealed that n.h.s. staff are now more likely to quit their jobs citing exhaustion from the pen demick according to the poll one in 4 n.h.s. workers are more inclined to leave than last year almost 30 percent of them are nurses and midwives to occupations facing major shortages and 70 percent say a pay rise is the decisive factor meanwhile those working for free student nurses are struggling to make ends meet one of them gave us her reaction to the survey it doesn't surprise me it's what we've had to use it needs increased workload. not the cost of living has gone up but wages have increased so much stress on the nurses that midwives everyone involved in the question and i think to be honest with the carpet condemn it i think everyone has now had enough and they need help and i feel the government needs to help and increase the way. to get a good environment for everyone british health authorities have promised to provide

the n.h.s. with an extra $29000000000.00 pounds but the nurse we spoke to says that money isn't making any real difference when it comes to student medics. we get the 5000 pound girl and some people get a 2000 pound grant dependent children or what feels like i'm in shape in reality is a chill in the ocean for the increase in childcare costs you know the increasing council tax increase in fuel into placement in my finished year i think it's a defeat by twice. and that should aid in the states that were actually were tightness is at the rate bank they could have played to say should i go into this position because i have 2 children and that's why my move by requiring little one was quite a full time childcare and the other one it just started sco the funds come for you all to we've already signed up for the course of their or you potential if you leave the coals and it does add to the mental side of the sorry sorry.

meanwhile the u.k. sports minister is being led hoon on mine after he suggested people should avoid hugging to save lives people took issue with the way he described hog's as ah behavior. and. despite his temptation pleased. by actually hunting and respect for. the disease he sees somebody paying him. and maybe call him out on that and i. know joe how will students where can i report because if you think you're promoting normal behavior you need to check out from the neck up what script are you reading from no same individuals would put this out there as normal. behaving in

a slightly over way strange choice of words to describe family members posing one another. in other words if you see someone behaving like a human being then call them out on it. and he call he's many kohli's who have been found guilty of various factions. 'd 'd 'd a long awaited world health organization report on the origins of code 19 has faced sharp criticism worldwide with some countries saying the investigation wasn't extensive enough as many questions still remain unanswered the w.h.o. director general himself called for further studies after the report was published

we got a firsthand account of the w.h.o. mission to were hung from a russian member of the team. which will cause our mission started off under phase one why was it called that it was clear from the beginning nobody expected us to find answers to all the questions right away in fact it was prepared to rework aimed at analyzing the data we had accumulated and establishing hypotheses in general it's hard to predict how long this investigation will take and how it will end but it should be done that's for sure. or we've managed to find out that the virus supposedly emerged in the period between the middle of november and the beginning of december however we don't know the exact location of the outbreak in my view it was in china but it's not clear yet it's unlikely though that the outbreak occurred in a wet market most probably it was some market visitor who had already been infected and spread the virus this suggestion derives from the fact that there were quite

a large number of patients who had nothing to do with the markets we don't know who the 1st patient was neither do we know the natural origin of covert 19 based on our common knowledge of various coronaviruses we suggest it's a but might have been a source. the issue is very much politicized everyone is trying to find someone to blame i've never considered the oblique hypothesis a theory there's so much talk about this in the media though but people don't really have an idea there is no scientific evidence or facts proving a leak as of today based on what we saw i can say that the suspect a laboratory is run properly by well trained staff there is total compliance with all the rules regarding work with viruses of this has a class or even the class above the laboratory is regularly audited and is in the constant scrutiny of competence international organizations building from that we therefore can't say that a lab leak might have been the cause. we

didn't feel any pressure coming from our chinese colleagues actually it wouldn't even be the case i can't think of how they could have put pressure on us we are in no way affiliated with china people from various countries were part of our team who went to carry out this investigation on behalf of the w.h.o. on what would have been the point of pressurising as we hardly liaise with officials we were largely in touch with scientists. russia is pushing ahead with the global rollout of the sputnik the vaccine the russian direct investment fund has struck a deal to make 100000000 doses of the doubt in china cooperation will help increase production capacities of sputnik v. in china to provide the necessary amounts and help partners in the country and globally to fight the pandemic china is one of the major production hopes for sputnik v. and we are ready for increasing the scope of partnership with local producers to meet the rising demand for the russian vaccine those upcoming stocks will be enough

to vaccinate 50000000 people with each needing 2 doses the russian job has not yet been approved for use in china but assuming that happens the chinese manufacturer will distribute it a mess to clean as well as i spoke with victor gao earlier director of the china national association of international studies he thinks moscow and beijing have plenty to gain from working together. for china to help russia to produce the a vaccine and to introduce that to the chinese consumers as well as markets outside of china would be a very very china has one of the largest the manufacturing capacity is ng vaccines so if we use the formula produced by the russian side or the production of a vaccine physically in china it will be a win win situation i do not see any reason why this vaccine should not be approved of by the charlie israel and syria oranges and i hope the chinese people will have

a choice if they want to use one of 2 or 3 chinese vaccines they will be able to do that if they preferred the sputnik vaccine they were have a choice to be made by themselves. the endemic has laid bare a host of political divisions in the us especially over how to respond to the crisis and how democrats and republicans are slugging it out over mask mandates and axing passports are just come up and has more. joe biden says america is going to start getting back to normal in the coming summer months but what is that going to look like will normal only be for vaccinated folks while everyone else stays home such talk is being met with fury from republicans who are set against it especially when it comes from democrats who oppose aidid checks considering that democrats want to require vaccine i.d.'s for people to conduct their basic daily activities they now have 0 grounds to objects to voter id laws he funded democrat logic you

should need a $92.00 and even a grocery stool surely there wouldn't be an objection to showing an id to legally vote vaccine credentials would be a complete government over step individuals in america have a personal responsibility for their health the governor of florida is now promising a state wide ban it's completely unacceptable for either the government or the private sector to impose upon you the requirement that you show proof of vaccine to just simply be able to participate in normal society you want the fox to guard the hen house i mean give me a break i think this is something that has huge privacy implications it is not necessary to do democrats are standing their ground now the 1st leader to propose the idea of vaccine passports was andrew cuomo the governor of new york state back at the beginning of the pandemic he was a glowing hero in mainstream media but sense that his image has significantly faded

but his idea of vaccine passports with q.r. codes that will be scanned by businesses for admission is catching on madison square gardens is already saying it will be a requirement and republicans now face mainstream media ridicule for their opposition to the proposal and irresponsibly they're being stupid right which is very rich coming from the party that wants 9 forms of identification before you can vote the right would have you believe that a vaccine paul spoke is a fair. to believe big brother coming for you and your family now the white house has confirmed it is working with the private sector to develop vaccine passports however they insist they are not keeping a database of who is and who is not vaccinated at the federal level so let the political games begin it's just like the mask man day now at this point 16 states have either lifted their mask mandate or never had one to begin with and now joe biden is urging them to reinstate it as there's

a surge of cases i'm router in my call for every governor mare and local leader to maintain and reduce state to match mandy at least this is not politics republican governors do not seem to appreciate joe biden's plea in fact the governor of arkansas has moved up the lifting of the mast mandate by an entire day he says the case numbers are showing a downward trend and now we have the mainstream media pressing the white house about whether or not joe biden is just being ignored the dinner go. normally well i don't think we see it that way jeff but i would say that one of the ways we can impact people across the country is bag knowledge ng this is hard the shenanigans are starting to sound a little bit less like they're motivated by concerns about public health and more like some classic american political squabbling the kind that's been around long before covert 19 and i'm going to reflect on them and arranged feeling i have you

know we have so much to look forward to so much promise of potential of where we are and so much reason for how all right now i'm scared the war continue vaccine passports mask mandates every new proposed measure seems to present a new opportunity for us society to further polarize ideally i mean would be great if politicians focused on something other than creating political division and advancing special interests and the like but they don't. with the coronavirus we're seeing is that politicians are using the panic to funnel money to their corporate allies you see this through the plan to create required vaccinations which of course by necessity bring a huge amount of money to the pharmaceutical companies that are producing those vaccinations and so we're seeing a lot of things that look a lot more like corruption and a lot less like trying to actually provide guides for the american people as far as i know there is no meaningful plan in place to go back to complete normalcy to you

know pretty coronavirus type behavior i don't see there is bet that a vaccine passport to go to normal places could possibly be seen as something constitutional the united states presidency has lost the trust of the people and they did they didn't do this all at once that didn't happen because a crowbar is they've just been lying to the american people about a lot. joe biden may have said diplomacy is back on taking office but it seems a number of us organizations disagree 27 have signed a joint letter to the president urging him to step back from his tough talk on russia. by the recent negative exchanges between leaders of the 2 countries with more than 90 percent of the world's nuclear warheads in their own as americans we have the biden administration to stop participating in such reckless rhetorical exchanges and to instead vigorously pursue nuclear arms negotiations with the

russian government that follows a number of recent heated exchanges between the russian and u.s. presidents they included biden recently agreeing in an interview putin was quote a killer and since entering office in january the new us president has repeatedly said that he would be taking a firmer line with moscow than his predecessor would discuss the issue with daniel bryan who signed the statement himself. you know the old you know old game driven by the military industrial complex which is about making profit from a war and the heads of those company weapon making companies and you know weapons of war making companies have control 'd 'd of a lot of the people in our our congress in both parties and they have enormous power i think people need to talk about peace and they need to talk about the end of war no matter who is against we don't live in peace in this world because we

have a lot of things we have to do to address other issues that you know are more more important than war and you know and threatening people and not not being good neighbors that's all for this hour news wise but if you're looking for more you can always had an avatar web site r.t. dot com thanks for tuning at. humanity has never seen such strange natural phenomena biffle giant cletus appearing in the amount peninsula.