many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. the european medicines agency urges countries to keep using the astra zeneca coded vaccine insisting it's safe to launch a probe into new cases of under usual blood. just because. this is the i know every stage of this epidemic we might say to ourselves that we could have done better we make 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 near 100000 with the promise forced to impose a 3rd national lockdown. also this hour fears of a nursing exodus in the u.k. as a poll reveals one and or n.h.s. workers is more likely to quit now than in 2020 but many citing exhaustion from the

pandemic you speak to one british nurse with such ease and need is increased but the cost of living has gone up the wages have increased so much stress on the nurses and i feel the government need to help and increase the wages. and a year of restrictions millions dead and the origin of corona virus is still a mystery after a long awaited report from work on leaves many questions unanswered. watching our senior national coming to you live from the russian capital this and every hour welcome to the program. here a paean 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 country 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 astra zeneca vaccine in preventing codeine change with it. hospitalized patients and their outweigh the risk of side effects and our precision 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 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 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 standing committee for vaccination published near the commendations on the future use of the estrogenic a vaccination i quote on the basis of the currently available limited evidence to the pandemic situation descending committee for vaccination recommends the use of the yesterday any $1000.00 vaccine and those over 60 it's application for under 16 is still possible at the doctor's discretion and individual acceptance of the risks but it's just another setback in the. really the bloke's vaccine rollout has been

heavily criticized for being sluggish and this is mainly due to their facts that they just don't have a sufficient supply of vaccines only 4 percent of the blocks population has been vaccinated so far and the world health organization has really criticized this instead 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 now this is brussels also receives criticism from pfizer which is blames the e.u. stringent export controls for delaying covert vaccine efforts 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 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 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 barn doors or a partition from germany is left party thinks the vaccine rollout in europe has been politicized at the expense of people's health. we look at what is going on with wall 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 any there are still a lot of doubts what's so we should take the alternatives and i think 'd the i'm a shop to. buy you a and then to will accept that support we. all of a vehicle that seems which are sure we're safe to use i think the population is very insecure at the moment i think. they're shocked the law of nationalism and confidence in between different qualities in a shop be the politics internationally in favor of the people and of the health of the people and of the governments are responsible. no he's also going to which are there should be interests and. to 'd secure or else of

people instead of to is to secure the profits of the industry the french president admits he made mistakes throughout the pandemic in a televised address to the nation and i know moran has announced a 3rd nationwide lockdown as cover cases soar into the care beds are filling up and the country's death toll there is 100000 he said the situation left him with no other choice just. the thought that i know that every stage of this epidemic we might say to ourselves that we could have done better and have that we made in the stakes analysis 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 19 areas to all of mainland france from saturday as 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 announce additional policing to ensure 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 then criticised by scientists and hostile bosses. i say to the government do it now. now for do it for a shorter time don't forget i'm doing this 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 predicts 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 the public sector even repaying from these youngest the president i mean it's a pretty impressive resume and people trade himself as a man he knew when to take advice i mean it was important this time by following

the advice of scientists as we've just done to ensure the continuity of on democratic life and our institutions but now it seems being top dog isn't quite enough not grown his thrown 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 quite as 8 so if he even confidently declared that he has become an epidemiologist despite not having a scientific background these claims over groans expertise on health issues. have also rubbed expert so the wrong way. please 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 you have to put his nose to the grindstone he's applied to take notice of trends but that doesn't make him an

epidemiologist of course and 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 and musicians. in 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 pandemic 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 in all those working for free student nurses are struggling to make ends meet one of them gave us her reaction to the survey but it doesn't surprise me it's what we've had to use it needs increased but. not the cost

of living has gone up the wages have increased so much stress on the nurses midwives everyone involved in the question and i think to be honest with the carpet pandemic i think everyone has now had enough and they need help and i feel the government they to help and increase the right to get a good environment for. british health authorities in turn have promised to provide the n.h.s. with an extra 29000000000 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 dependent children or will feel like i'm in tape but in reality is until in the ocean that the increase in childcare costs you know the increase in council tax increase and if you get into placement in my 1st year i think the tate afraid back twice. and that should say the nest states that were actually were tightness is at the trade bank they could have played to say should i go into this

position because i have 2 children and at the time i would buy required little what was quite a full time child and the other one it just started sco the funds come for you all to we've already signed up for the course of that or you potential if you leave the coals and it does add to the mental soul of the. sorry dry cleaning. meanwhile the u.k. sports minister is being lampooned online after he suggested people should avoid hugging to save lives people took issue with the way he described hugs as odd behavior. despite the temptation pleased. by actually hugging one and risk the spread of 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 necco what script are you reading from those same individuals would put this out there as not. behaving in a slightly over way strange choice of words to describe family members holding one another. in other words if you see someone behaving like a human being and then call them out on it. can he call his many colleagues who have been found guilty of various actions. 'd 'd

a long awaited w.h.o. report on the origins of kobe 1000 has faced sharp criticism worldwide some countries saying the investigation wasn't extensive enough 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 mission to will honk 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 again that 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. 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 here in my view it was in china but it's not clear yet it's unlikely though that the outbreak occurred in a west marquees 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 this so much talk about this in the media though which 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 likely cause. 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 people from various countries were part of our team who went to carry out this investigation on behalf of the w.h.o. visit 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 which is overseeing production has struck a deal to make 100000000 doses of the job 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 meeting 2 doses has not yet been approved for use in china but assuming that happens the chinese manufacture well distribute it domestically as well as abroad so far support movie has been licensed in almost 60 countries earlier i spoke with her gown 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 vaccine

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 who break back saying they were have a choice to be made by themselves. russian and european firms are advancing with the final stages of the nordstrom 2 gas pipeline despite the u.s. sanctions but now the firm behind the project says it's come up against a more covert form of pressure i discussed the story with saskia taylor. well never a quiet day for the north stream to pipeline with just a few dozen kilometers to go until the project is fully completed in recent days

we've seen heightened activity around the primary building site that's just off the coast of denmark military and civilian vessels have been caught on camera as of helicopters and planes now a representative of nord stream too says that these belong to foreign governments who are no way involved in the project and therefore have absolutely no business being there for him that means that there's only one way that such maneuvers can be interpreted. these are clearly planned and prepared provocations with the use of 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 works are seen as hostile but we have to remember also what our health and safety hazard they pose there is a fact a one and a half mile no fly and no swims 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 we know of course the north stream to pipeline is the $11000000000.00 mega project that's going to see 1200 kilometers of pipeline directly quickly cheaply to live a gas from russia to germany around 94 percent of the project is now completed but it's really been stop and start why well from the very moment that if the project was announced that was one credible path you came out all guns blazing against it the u.s. washington sees this as a geopolitical danger it says that room or russian gas can only mean more russian influence and no one wants that of course it would also prefer to buy its liquefied natural gas and of course at a much higher price that rhetoric we heard time and time again from trump and. right out of the gates the same thing we heard from the biden administration ultimately it's in contradiction to the use on energy security goals

it has the potential to undermine the interests of ukraine poland a number of other close partners or allies as well in order to protect u.s. interests we've seen washington resort to pressure to threats to sanctions against any companies and governments who dared to get involved in the project now understandably that's led to a lot of anger frustration some even not taking heat case in point the pipe playing ship for 2 no that is a party now in sa called in those hostile danish waters for them as from moscow this is purely an economic project politics has got nothing to do with it but still apparently not everyone is convinced we still see a complete site figures including nato weighed into the issue on the issue of north stream 2 there are differences there are different use among nato allies 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 toller it's 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've only seen angry words exchanged or punitive foreign policy tools like sanctions leopard's this latest hive of activity in the waters seems to show that the hostility and the pressure has been taken up a notch with potentially very dangerous consequences. the infamous hitler balcony and vienna may soon be open to the public a line visitors to tread and the furious footsteps needless to say the move by the house of austrian history has divided opinion about me it was hosting hitler's notorious speech on the 50. end of march in 1938 in which he announced the annexation of astra into 3rd reich it was met with cheers and jubilation by around

200000 austrians about me has since become one of us or as 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 and africans are off things at stores should remain firmly shut the fact that the austrian population came out in huge numbers to greet the fear. is part of the problem it's an 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 in 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 not

a set up over 40000 ghettos and concentration camps for the jewish population during the 2nd world war but around a 2 thirds of all jewish people in europe killed in the holocaust africans are off again says the significance of had their speech in vienna should not be underestimated but the best of my knowledge i don't think the administrative work is in the crowds in the area or are experts in history and perhaps they don't realize what an incredible impact it was appearance in vienna haves and have that was another step on the way to war. that that ultimately led to the deaths of millions millions of innocent people sides the 6000000 jews murdered during the holocaust millions of other people who lost their lives maybe the eastern europe and this is all because it was dr for

leopard's route though it was decision to that to dominate europe and to the peoples of eastern europe and to slaves it's. joe biden may have said diplomacy is back on taking office but a number of us organizations disagree 27 have signed a joint letter to the president urging him to step back from this tough talk on russia which deeply alarmed by the recent negative exchanges between leaders of the 2 countries with more than 90 percent of the world's nuclear warheads in their arsenals as americans we urge the biden administration to stop participating in such reckless rhetorical exchanges and to instead vigorously pursue nuclear arms negotiations with the russian government as far as a number of recent heated exchanges between the russian and u.s. presidents included biden recently agreeing in an interview that putin was quote a killer 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 we discussed the issue with daniel bryan who signed the statement himself. you know the old 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 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 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

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