1st for. the european medicines agency urges countries to keep using the astra zeneca corona virus vaccine and system is safe also launching a probe into dozens of new cases of severe blood clots. the sickest. this if they didn't i know they did every stage of this epidemic we might say to ourselves that we could have jumped that we made mistakes and that was true a stark admission of failure in the handling of the kobe crisis by the french president and the country's death toll here is 100000 across this forced imposed be heard in national long town. also this hour and there's fears of a nursing exodus in the u.k. as a poll reveals a long and poor and they just workers is more likely to quit now than in 2020 but

many citing exhaustion from the kind of damage we speak to one british nurse. with such ease it needs increased quite a bit the coast of libya has gone up how could you criticise so much stronger support in the states and after the government need to help and increase the weight . and the year of restrictions millions dad and the origin of chronic virus is still a mystery after a long awaited w.h.o. report. leaves many questions unanswered we ask a russian expert on that mission and why it's taking so long. watching our to international bring your live news updates from our studio here in moscow welcome to the program. fear pain medicines agency is throwing its support behind the astra zeneca coated vaccine despite fears over severe blood clots the.

later is launching yet 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 a time that the benefits of the after seneca vaccine in preventing cope with 19 with a. risk of hospitalized patients and outweigh the risk of side effects and our position has not changed another i mentioned previously a causal link with the vaccine has not yet been progress but it is possible there are now if this is still ongoing well this astra zeneca saga continues doesn't it 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 and this of course coming just days after germany decided to limit distribution of the job citing concerns over blood clots now worldwide there have been $62.00 cases of this rare blood clotting condition which has prompted a number of european countries to temporarily holt's use of the vaccine germany's medical regulator has recorded 31 cases of this rare blood clots condition although in people younger than the age of 63 all but 2 were women and 9 people have died and angela merkel has said this is data that the government just can't ignore the negative comments through the standing committee for vaccination published near the commendations and the future use of the senate vaccination i quote on the basis of the currently available the limited evidence to the pandemic situation to be descending kmita for vaccination recommends the use or go yesterday 19 method and those over 60 it's application for under 16 is still possible a dog. discretion and individual acceptance of the risks but it's just another

setback in the use progress really the looked back to rollout has been heavily criticized for being sluggish and this is mainly due to the fact 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 bloke 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. stringent export controls for delaying cove aids vaccine that's now pfizer 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 that 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 have started ordering and some even started using the sputnik the vaccine hungary and slovakia are on board all stria being the latest european countries to order 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 when the vaccine was 1st unveiled but now it seems that using sputnik the might be that the logical answer to all of these problems. mind dolls are a politician from germany's left party thinks the vaccine rollout and europe has been politicized at the expense of people's health. we look at what is going on

with all and i think we need every work seeing which is. possible to know to use and which is. secure so when we see that as true as in it are there as a lot of doubts what's so we should take the alternatives and i think the i'm a short of fast not to evaluate and then to will accept that support we. all of a single that seems which are sure weren't safe. i think the population is very insecure at the moment i think demick there shocked the law courts of nationalism and conference and between different columnists but there shop the politics internationally in favor of the people and of the health of the people and of the governments are responsible. no you also committees which are there should

be 1st and here. to 'd secure or else of people instead of to is to secure the profits of the industry. the french president has admitted that he has made mistakes throughout the pandemic and a televised address to the nation and i know micron has announced a 3rd nationwide lockdown as the case is sore intensive care beds are filling up and the country's death toll nears 100000 is that the situation left him with no other choice just because. the city did i know that at every stage of this epidemic we might say to ourselves that we could have done better and have that we made mistakes analysis true we all need to make an additional effort over the coming months this is what i ask of us collectively tonight. new lockdown measures will be extended from 19 areas to all of mainland france 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 said schools will be closed for at least 3 weeks and announced 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 walk down in january he was criticized at the time by scientists and hospital bosses. i say to the government do it now do it now do it for a shorter time but do it to concede their 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 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 even repaying from season youngest of a president i mean it's a pretty impressive resume and he patrol agent selfless and learned he knew when to

take advice needed temple it is important at this time by following the advice of scientists as we've just done to ensure the continuity of 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 growing as 8 since he wouldn't be declared that he has become an epidemiologist despite not having a scientific background these claims over. seas on health issues have also rubbed the wrong way. because you don't let mr mccollum is 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 for all those that talk about epidemiology and among them. you 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 they're not necessarily school to artists or musicians. in britain there are fears of a nursing existence after a survey revealed that and they trust 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 that needs increased but. not the cost of

living has gone up the wages have increased the ice so much stress on the nurses midwives everyone involved in the question and i think to be honest with the carpet condemn it i think everyone has know how to enough and they need help and i feel the government they 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 pounds and some people get a 2000 pound grant depending if it were children or what feels like i'm in shape but in reality is until in the ocean that the increase in childcare costs you know the increasing council tax increase and if you get into placement in my finished year i think it's a defeat back twice. and that should aid the nest states that were actually were

tightness is at the bank they couldn't believe that if they should i go into this position because i have a rabbi they are 2 children and at the time they were 5 required it 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 cool so that for you the potential if you leave the coals and it does add to the mental so that the sorry sorry dr. meanwhile the u.k. sports minister is being lampoon online after he suggested people should avoid hugging to save lives people took issue with the way he described hog's as odd behavior. despite the temptation pleased. by actually hugging one and risk the spread of the disease do you see somebody. like this and maybe call him out on that in

a respectful way. where can i report you 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 old way strange choice of words to describe family members hugging one another. in other words if you see someone behaving like a human being then call them out on it. can he call out his many call eeks who have been found guilty of various actions. 'd

'd a long awaited world health organization report on the origins of covert 19 has faced sharp criticism worldwide by some countries saying the investigation was an extensive and off as many questions still remain on answered 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 work on 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 and based on our common knowledge of various coronaviruses we suggest it's a but might have been a source. but 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 what 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 the 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 competent international organizations building from that we devil can't say that a lab leak might have calls. yes you knew 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 most people from various countries were part of our team who went to carry out this investigation on behalf of the w.h.o. visit and what would have been the point of pressurising as we hardly liaise with officials we were largely in touch with scientists and. pressure 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 jab 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 58000000 people with each needing 2 doses russian gas has not yet been approved for use in china but assuming that happens the chinese manufacturer will distribute it domestically as well as abroad so far splitting v. has been licensed and almost 60 countries earlier i spoke with victor gao director of the china national association of international studies he thinks moscow and beijing have plenty to gain from working together on vaccines. 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 in 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 when we situation i do not see any reason why this vaccine should not be approved of by the charlies rowland's or oranges and i hope the chinese people will have a choice if they want to use one or 2 or 3 chinese rections they will be able to do that if they prefer those big vaccine they were have a choice to be made by themselves. russian and european firms are pushing ahead with the final stages of the north stream 2 gas pipeline despite u.s. sanctions but now the firm behind the project says it's come up against a more covert form of pressure cannot cross live to artists ask

a teller for more so the construction is supposed to be entering its final stages and the baltic sea could you tell us what's been happening. while never a quiet day for the nord stream to pipeline with just a few dozen kilometers until it's fully completed in recent days there seems to have been heightened activity around the primary building site now that's just off the danish coast so minute tree and civilian vessels have been caught on camera as have helicopters and planes now the north stream 2 representative said that these belong to foreign governments who are no way involved in the project and therefore have no business being there for him that means there's only one way that such maneuvers can be on top protests these are clearly planned and prepared provocations with the use of fission vessels and worships as well as submarines and aircraft in order to obstruct the implementation of an economic project it is perhaps the 1st case of these kind in history. so clearly these vessels inching

ever closer to those pipes they and what's all seen as hostile but we also have to remember that they pose a serious safety hazard there is in fact a one and a half no sweat mile one half mile no swimming no fly zone around the project but it appears that at least one submarine is within a mile so that has a real potential for quite literally explosive disaster not just to recap of course nordstrom too is the $11000000000.00 mega project that's going to see 1200 kilometers of pipeline directly quick need to lift gas from russia to germany and around 94 percent of the project is now complete but it's really been start and stop why well because from the moment that the project was announced that was one global player who came out guns blazing against it the u.s. america claims that this is some sort of geo political danger that more russian gas

means more russian influence of course that's never good. of course it doesn't. have germany buying its liquefied natural gas of course at a much higher price this was rhetoric that we had time and time again from trump and straight out of the gates is something that we heard from the biden ministration alternately it's in contradiction to the use on energy security goals it has the potential to undermine the interests of of ukraine poland a number of other close partners or allies and i'm sure i have an opportunity to reiterate that including the united states which requires us to sanction companies participating in the efforts to complete pipeline. well in order to protect u.s. interests we've seen washington threaten pressure sanction companies and

governments that have dared to be involved in the project now understandably that's led to a lot of anger frustration some even not taking heed case in point quite playing both fortunate that is now currently surrounding the party in those hostile danish waters for them as for moscow this is a purely economic project politics has got nothing to do with it but apparently not everyone is convinced and it seems even some total site figures who are not involved including nato weighed into the issue. on the issue of north stream 2 there are differences there are different uses. and then i think that nato is a buffer and we also can address and discuss this issue nato doesn't have a common view on north stream too but why does the military organization have to take a common standpoint towards a business project between 2 independent states maybe their alliance has plans to invest so clearly a very controversial project but whilst until now we very rarely seen angry words

exchanged or punitive foreign policy tools such as sanctions beloved this recent hive of activity in the waters really shows that that hostility the pressure is being taken up a notch with potentially very dangerous consequences artist ask a teller bring us the latest on north stream to thank you. the infamous hitler balcony and vienna may soon be open to the public allowing visitors to tread in the fierce footsteps needless to say the move by the house of austrian history has divided opinion about me was host to hitler's notorious speech on the 15th of march in 1938 and which denounced the annexation of austria into the 3rd reich it was matched with cheers and jubilation by around 200000 austrians about that he has since become one of asterisk most prominent symbols of its not a past the director of the museum said that giving the public access would

strengthen the country's collective historic memory but american israeli historian africans are off thinks its doors should remain friendly shut. the fact that the austrian population came out in huge numbers to greet the fear. is part of the problem but in attempt to leave things behind. these are the kind of things that must be remembered and i have to say that. the situation has improved recent years and there's more sensitivity. to the issues of the holocaust so i think it's a very good reminder for the people in austria who quite frankly have had far more difficulty in facing their peers than the people in germany for example and i think set up over 40000 ghettos and concentration camps for the jewish population during world war 2 with around 2 thirds of all jewish people in europe killed in the holocaust africans are off again says the significance of hitler speech in

vienna should not be underestimated. but the best of my own our generals in the administration were in the crowd simply are experts in history and perhaps they don't realize what incredible is that it was appearance in vienna have. anyhow that was another step on the way to a war. that that ultimately led to the deaths of millions millions of innocent people besides the 6000000 jews murdered during the holocaust who had millions of other people who lost their lives maybe or there in the eastern europe and this is all because of hitler's drive for leopard's route though it was decision to that to dominate europe and to turn the peoples of eastern europe and just slaves of its. and the us the pandemic has laid bare

a host of political divisions especially over how to respond to the crisis and are democrats and republicans are slugging it out of a mask mandates and vaccine passports are to come often look at the latest. 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 that 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 fact. really 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 mass 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 reiterating my call for every governor mare and local leader to maintain and read state to match men. please 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 for the. norm you oh 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 the been 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 decided 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 and. with corona virus what we're seeing is that politicians are using the panic to funnel money to their corporate allies you see this through the plans 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 that a vaccine passport to go to normal places could possibly be seen as something constitutional to the united states at present.