bigger opinion medicines agency urges countries to keep using the astra zeneca seen insisting it's safe. to new cases of on usual blood potentially. because. we made mistakes this is true. in the. crisis by the french president the country imposes a 3rd national. fears of a nursing activists in the u.k. . workers they're more likely to quit 2020 with many citing

exhaustion from the. british. side. and the government to help. millions did the origin of corona virus still a mystery a long awaited w.h.o. report from leaves many questions. we're counting the program from today. and this is. the european medicines agency has thrown its support behind the. scene the spike fears over severe blood clots the regulator is launching yet another investigation

into 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 backfill in any population 2 weeks ago on the 18th of march we gave an interim update of the assessment we concluded after the time that the benefit of the astra zeneca vaccine in preventing kogut 19 with a. risk of hospitalized patients and their 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 has cancer can or give can soon the standing committee for vaccination published nearly commendations in the future use of the senate vaccination i quote on the basis of the currently available will be limited evidence and with a view to the pandemic situation the standing committee for vaccination recommends the use of the ester seneca curve in $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 one is just another

setback in the e.u.'s. 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 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 5 is there which is blames the e.u. stringent export controls for delaying covert vaccine efforts 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 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 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 and just sticking with this story we heard from martin doul jury politician from germany's left party he thinks the vaccine in your post been politicized the expense of people's health ultimately

their lives. we look at what is going on in them all and i think we need every work seeing which is. possible tool to use and which is. secure so when we see that as true as in there as a lot of doubts. so we should take the alternatives and i think. 'd shook us now to evaluate and then to will 'd accept the. whole of a vehicle that scenes which i'm sure were unsafe to be used i think the population is very insecure at the moment i think demick there should be a lot more faults of nationalism and confidence between different problem lose their shop beat the politics internationally in favor of the people hand of the health of the people and if the governments are responsible. no you also go to

switch there should be madras and here measures to 'd secure or else of people instead of to is to secure the profits of the industry the french president has admitted he made mistakes at every stage of the pandemic in a televised address to the nation the money will mccrone also announced a 3rd nationwide lockdown as kobe cases soar and tense of care of. the country's death toll nears 100000 he said the situation left him no other choice. the thought that i know that at every stage of this epidemic we might say to ourselves that we could have done better that we made mistakes and 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 locked on measures will be extended from $1000.00 areas to all of mainland france from saturday and that means

a nationwide curfew beginning at 7 pm travel between regions band the french president schools will be closed for at least 3 weeks. policing to ensure no more than half a dozen people gather at once well the measures introduced by the french leader come as a really a u.-turn to his previous this is not to lock down in january he was criticised after 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 predicts it will start this president is without doubt an educated man emanuel macro through through the country's top institutions before making a mark in both the private or public sector he then reporting from youngest ever

president i mean it's a pretty impressive resume and people traded in selfless and learned he knew when to take advice it was important at 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 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 if 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 we can find heads of states like president who talks about epidemiology just like we talk about politics when we talk about sculpture or about music but they're not necessarily sculpture artists. well musicians. meanwhile fears of a nursing exodus in britain after a survey revealed that n.h.s. staff are now more likely to quit their jobs than in previous years exhaustion from the pandemic was cited as the overriding reason according to the poll one in 4 n.h.s. workers are more inclined to leave and during the previous 12 months almost 30 percent of them are nurses and midwives to occupations facing major shortages there 70 percent said a pay rise is at the size of functor while those working for free student nurses

say they're struggling to make ends meet one of them gave her reaction to the surveys findings it doesn't surprise me at school we've had that need is increased . not the cost of living has gone up but wages have increased prices so much stress on the nurses that made wives everyone involved in that fashion and i think to be honest that pandemic i think everyone has now had enough and they need help and i feel the government need to help and increase the way. to get a good environment for everyone well british health authorities have promised to provide the n.h.s. with an extra $29000000000.00 pounds but the nurse we spoke to say that money isn't making any difference when it comes to student. we get the 5000 pound girl and some people get a 2000 pound grant dependent children or what feels like i mean tape but in reality is it's all in the i should and 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 it's a defeat back twice. and that should say the nest states that were actually were tightness is at the trade bank they couldn't relate it to say should i go into this position because i have a rabbi they are 2 children and that's what i'm like with 5 required what was quite a full time child care 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 for you potentially if she leaves the course and it does add to the mental some of the the sorry sorry. just thing in the country the u.k. sports minister is being lumped and online now after he suggested people should avoid hugging to save lives people took issue with the way he described hugs as quote odd behavior. despite the temptation pleased. by actually hunting. the spread.

of disease he sees somebody. and maybe call him. 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 way 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. can he call his many colleagues who have been found guilty of various actions.

'd 'd a long awaited w.h.o. reports on the origins of deen faced sharp criticism worldwide some countries say the investigation was not extensive enough as many questions still remain but 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 from a russian member of the team. sure because 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 preparatory work 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 it. will go well 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 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 def or can't say that a lab leak might have been because. 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 us we hardly liaise with officials we were largely in touch with scientists russia is expanding the global

rollout of the sputnik 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. for those upcoming stocks will be enough to vaccinate 15000000 people each person needs 2 doses the russian job 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 but he has been licensed in almost 60 countries asia expert victor go 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 bold china has one of the largest the manufacturing capacity is ng vaccines so if we use the formula produced by the russian side on the production of the 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 telecom a cryptic tweets from the us department in charge of a nuclear arsenal has caused quite a stir full of improving our story right after the break.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. very dramatic to follow because the only mostly i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. one else seemed wrong why don't we all just don't all. get to shape out these days become educated and engage with equals betrayal.

when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. 20 minutes past the hour welcome back for the u.s. government there is no bigger responsibility than guarding the nuclear launch codes so to reassure americans out there in safe elms strategic command has been keeping them updated via twitter.

if it takes us strategic command 30 minutes to recognize a missed tweet how long before they recognize we're under attack. i'm pretty sure u.s. strategic command just launched. an o.l. maybe it was a secret code or not so secret message for a nation leader who every time that was trying. kept walked. interesting stuff very happy to say. maybe i'll us live from new york always good to see you i know they say today in our modern age we should listen to children more and all that but come on. this is

this is one for the ages you know union i i i don't want to. perhaps provide this to you but you do realize that i don't believe any news story ever anything that i read no matter what went with the user but i don't believe anything and i want to make. what is the purpose of this is this is this was this do literally or let to happen allowed to happen is now you can say well this is the twitter she will code in themselves are not compromised the notification in the announcement of nuclear holocaust yes that was a mistake but nothing you know no animals were harmed during this particular exercise but you have to wonder if this is the level of security what other forms of wax this might be exhibited somewhere along the way

i remember at united 2018 in hawaii there was this false code this false tweet is false emergency signal of a nuclear annihilation nuclear attack people were just going crazy never mind. so this happens from time to time there's also this idea that well children are in home now you know this is the time of kovi don't you understand children are at home there they were living at home with their they were staying at school there was a a fairly recent skype interview somebody was doing something on some television b.b.c. and his children ran into the wrong room and his wife whom they believe was they thought was a caretakers of it tried to grab these kids but so much part of this new lovable world this new colvin at home society that we live in and. no earlier misadventure it's bound to happen if the new world of ovid have to make

exceptions if it happens it's not the 1st struck tweety you have us got people worried he took us back to 20th in their little new year's eve here. the times square new year's eve bowl drop in your city they also said they're quote ready to drop something much bigger with a fit with a big 2 stealth bomber dots on twitter as well i'm not sure if that's reassuring or not. i wouldn't think so call me old fashioned i don't think that would be but you know you've got to wonder see it's this this is my problem when i read something i did something good it really happened do you mean to tell me that that something like this was left open that is that that it isn't that i read that much at home is it that when you. forget what you're doing and

you don't realize the same reason that some people for example will will tweet horrible things to take pictures of themselves scantily clad and doing you know. licentious behavior because we kind of get used to it it's just a twitter. it's my friend it's no big deal i'm going to go get some coffee mean one of those will tide comes in and starts armageddon it really i mean the implications of this i don't mean to too much out of it but yeah but how likely is it that human error do you think could spark something as big as that new can our war. really easy i've got news for you into zoom the world that we're living in the other day did you see we're almost sunday broke into up to a surgery you're some doctor who's doing something some some. procedure and a court proceeding some court hearing was i mean we're becoming so lax

we're losing our mind we're worried more about you a little bit sad something i don't know we're you are but here we are going covert passport crazy and we're talking about vaccines and everybody that i know can you imagine what's going to happen when people try to manage the back scene updates on their phones in this world that allows that i think to simulate nuclear misadventure i mean this is just imagine what's going to happen in this world they were living in you know i have a theory when you walk around in him in your own breath for one solid year something happens to you edge perhaps a neurological deficit when you walk around when you've been basically a prisoner of your home for a year and you're walking around wearing

a face diaper for no particular reason. things happen security is apparently the 1st victim line is always griff they get your take on an issue jokingly it's one of those issues but the ramifications you never quite know do i yeah lytle illegal media was live from new york city thank you. thank you sir . well there's no lead up to the migrant surge in the southern u.s. border with up to 6000 people being detained on a daily basis of their crossing from mexico all accompanied children as young as 3 are being held in part shelters in texas and some have been stranded there for more than 2 weeks the situation is drawing concern from countries around the world including from russia. that is but actually because the migration crisis at the u.s. mexican border is becoming a major humanitarian crisis it requires the tension of international structures including the united nations and human rights in. well with the russian foreign

ministry is essentially saying is that a crisis of this nature and of such precautions. is not an internal use a very should not be considered this stage because we are talking about plans of. thousands of people at least 18000 miners living in absolutely squalid and insecure conditions with a direct threat to their health and well being and we are also talking about the citizens of multiple countries so are something like this should have not only a domestic coverage but also should be of an international concern and i can tell you from my personal experience of covering many a recent conflict if something like this was happening let's say in syria and libya . you know whose governments were not particularly friendly to the united states this issue with would have been on their agenda out of not only major international

news outlets but also on that are on their agenda of major international organizations both non-governmental organizations and u.n. bodies there would be calls for. you know humanitarian aid for bringing in the government and the government to you. some sort of accountability there would be humanitarian outreach we're seen nothing of this sort this time around and what struck me it strikes me the most is that. at this point of time despite the fact that the situation is really critical that there is very little ability to actually establish what's going on i mean the international organizations have the mandate of protecting the vulnerable people and what the motive is a horrible sad that they should be using that mandate if they indeed believe in the

preface of their musicians but as of now the only thing we have heard is from the bottom of the ministration saying that it will only allow access to journalists do you have observers to international aid workers when it deems. appropriate when it's all of the problem but this is not the approach that the united states advocated for many years with regards to other countries and this is not their prose that in the international community it should allow the united states if. it cares as it professes about their lives and the security of people around the world regardless of where they happen to be in danger well for up to the minute developments quite literally do give our twitter page a follow never a dull moment there i'm you know me on this is r.t. .