this is one of the world's largest collections some of them. they make over the. stories that shape this week's news r.t. . security. meet. 100 percent effective producing. all. the world health organization criticizes the rollout of. scenes in europe speaking to our t.v. agencies executive director for europe explain the problem. along.

with my. rapidly approaching 1000000 in new york. because we don't seem. to be. in the new york subway on an elderly filipino woman in the city streets. in hate crimes in the u.s. . also ahead in the program a call for. rhetoric in the u.k. community be held responsible for the actions of some individuals muslims are treated with more respect it's in response to a teacher forced to go into hiding after showing his cartoons of muhammad we put the issue up for debate. all is he ok.

alarming here is that it has had to go it's hiding with police protection. bringing you the recap of the past 7 days and right up to the minute developments this is the week to n.r.t. a little malcolm. in the war on the pandemic russia has an array of weapons among them the epi valve corona vaccine this week it became available in all russian regions as part of the must vaccination campaign the jobs developers say it is safe 100 percent effective at producing antibodies can fight off mutant strains r t was invited to visit the high security laboratory in the heart of siberia where it's me. this sign is probably worth a 1000 words because we are in one of the few places in the world where it has been plastered against the door not for cool looks not for show but as an actual warning

behind this door is one of the world's 2 largest virus collections some of them so deadly they make covert 19 look like an allergy we are at the vector research institute met here with armed guards barbed wire and the no fly zone above us inviting journalists is worlds apart from common practice here but they're eager to show and talk about how with their jab corona is made so this machine is where the work on the vaccine begins basically an inactivated virus from the red zone from the dirty zone is brought here and this machine it separates the r.n.a. from the rest of the virus is isolated and from here at the r.n.a. is being passed on for further study and work this is the preferred final stage of producing a vaccine basically here they are preparing a foundation for it it's protein based so the substance in this boiler is literally

called soup or world broth it contains all the nutrients that will make this protein grow and as soon as it is ready will be taken to a different lab also here where active components of the vaccine will be attached to this protein in the foundation by active i mean those that will be recognized by our immune system as well including this and therefore we will develop antibodies for covert 19 what we do but i want to emphasize 3 major advantages of the vaccine it's because it's made from synthetic peptides 2nd it's not sensitive to virus mutations it's resistant to all known covert strains including british south african brazilian and others and 3rd you can get vaccinated unlimited times one with the yearly flu vaccinations. both in the vaccine develops a 3 line defense like to enter a room you need to open

a door the vaccine forms on 2 parties that prevent that if the fos line of defense is broken then another pool of antibodies goes into battle that stops the virus from connecting to the cell and getting inside but if this line is crossed as wild immune response destroys the infected cell several high profile russian officials have already chosen up iraq as their covert job and there were rumors of russia's former president dmitry medvedev did so as well but the difficulty head of the vector institute says vaccination shouldn't be a free for all fights between different produces people get through jobs they don't ask how those vaccines are made or how they walk but all of them meet certain requirements it should be the same with coronavirus maxine's a person just gets a job and that's it the message from russian vaccine developers which ever jab you choose you are getting the best shot at immunity and we've done a reporting from the heart of siberia. let's bring you to germany

whose vaccination program a suffered another blow with berlin again suspending the use of the astra zeneca job for the older sixty's that's left many in the age group who've already held their 1st shots in a state of limbo is this all of it is undoubtedly a setback that one of the vaccines available to us for this pandemic appears to pose an increased risk for a certain age group 31 cases of cerebral vento strombo zus had been reported after vaccination with the astra zeneca jab 9 of which were unfortunately fatal. well those under 60 can still receive the shot but only on prescription or an individual risk assessment it comes as a number of non elderly people suffered blood clots after vaccination some in berlin say they're tired of the government's flip flops on the vaccine. but i completely understand being cautious but the problem of stopping the vaccination

all the time is that we are already so far behind compared to the rest of the world and that is very disappointing because there are many restrictions and vaccines are the only thing we're trusting so we need to receive clear messages for citizens not to get confused. i feel that they're now really rushing ahead too fast if you look at the side effects they're very rare if you read the information leaflets of aspirin or ibuprofen or any other those have much more serious side effects and we swallow those daily more or less. i think it is very very good that the vaccines were as a valid so fast and then we talk about the side effects because silence of that information would be so much worse but i also think that due to everyone having an opinion on it now it kind of make the whole vaccination process fall into pieces. the netherlands this week also followed suit while suspended the use of the job for those under 55 after the country's national advisory committee decided it wasn't worth the risk the vaccines image has been tarnished over the years of rare but

potentially fatal blood clots that prompted an investigation by the medical regulator which phone no direct link to the benefits of the way the risks but are good they would continue with the probe. meanwhile the same organization the european medicines agency recently approved a new name for the astra zeneca job every year there has been speculation that the company behind the vaccine has decided to rebrand in response to public safety concerns infectious disease expert bob arnot said there's no easy fix to the reputational damage. in this case and a 1000000 people you know you would expect very few cases of these terrible blood clots you know the ones in the in the scientists is in the brain the venous system the brain and the disseminated coagulation route the body just terrified and they're seen it you know in younger women so with this. it's very hard to convince

the public now because now you know they see faulty vaccine data you know used the wrong dose corrected the dose the may have the wrong. efficacy rate had to change that so a lot of suspicion about this only you vaccine rollout as a whole has been beset by problems with several states not looking to break away from the joint purchasing the w.h.o. has also expressed concerns calling the e.u.'s efforts on acceptably slow according to the organization only 4 percent of europeans have taken 2 doses of the fighting so far earlier my colleague need harvey discuss that and a stress zelic has troubles with the executive director of the w.h.o. regional office for europe. we're both alarms and frustrates at that moment we're alarmed because we're rapidly approaching 1000000 deaths in the european region which are 44000000 cases of covert 19 on the other hand we're frustrated because we

are well frustrated for the reasons that many of us have been living in lockdown francine's fancy 140 days in some cases but also across straits it's because we don't see these vaccines reaching arms fast enough but this really is a court of governments to improve their backs nation plans ramp up speed up that vaccination process we need people to accept and have confidence in the back scenes they're receiving and when they're offered a vaccine to agree to take it the longer we wait the higher the likelihood that they that the virus mutates and that will see variants escape the vaccine you mentioned a really important point there i think particularly pertinent right now because the w.h.o. talking about the after the nick of banks in a sad condition came easy and of course there's that there's a great the need for it and a great demand for it but there are several countries in more than a dozen countries at they're full of using it what is the stands now on astra zeneca as vaccine for some confidence is such

a fragile thing i mean it takes you in some cases years to build in just a few minutes to erode and diminish so it will undoubtedly and has undoubtedly impact the confidence of the communities that are relying on that vaccine. the astra zeneca bassett's this is very important that we get this vaccine back online where it's been temporarily suspended but at this point there's no course the association until we have more data we won't know just getting back to the vaccinations there's a range of them out there now russia has a fear of its own thing the 1st one out there are those put on the market was sputnik v. some countries and the west the big. slow to approve use of it is that legitimate is it just because the medical checks haven't been done yet or is it could there be a political element to it i don't think pot politics is something that we should necessarily just just in terms of the vaccines and when different vaccines used

split the vaccine from what we've seen from the russian federation's the dates of its own of all appears to be ineffective and cite that c. is used in many member states and in some of the states the do not have access to the vaccines that are listed for it's really the russian boxing that has come to that aid and supports so sputnik very being used to many member states it does not have european medicines association approval hence it doesn't have a u. member states using it at this point but we are confident that in the very near future not vaccine will be of use to everybody across the globe. until the asian attacks in the us show no sign of letting up to shockingly brutal assaults up and this week in new york one of the victims was an elderly filipino woman who was brutally beaten while her black male assailant yelled racial slurs

and warning you may find the following video upsetting. you are. and what seems to bother people the most is that there are several eyewitnesses in the video who didn't intervene did not step up to stop the attacker and that is very similar to something that took place on the new york city subway another anti asian hate crime which video has also been made available of take a look. in

. the new york city police department says there is a sharp increase in anti asian hate crimes they say there have been $27.00 similar incidents that took place over the course of the last year 12 of which were violent assaults now there has been a conversation among the us public about an asian racism we've heard statements from the biden ministration as president biden said during his 1st primetime address and to violence and said a full day is wrong it's un-american and must stop today president biden is announcing new actions to respond to the increase in acts of and. environments and

to develop safety inclusion and belonging for all asian american native hawaiian and pacific island to come in h.s. in asian american communities throughout the united states there have been community patrols that have been formed and they've been giving elderly asian americans a whistles so that if they are targeted by a racist attacker they can blow the whistle and and maybe you know get the attention of people that are around them and that's one measure that has been taken there's been a number of statements by celebrities that have been made about the need to stand against anti asian racism we've heard from the white house but at this point people are wondering will this be able to have an impact will this wave of anti asian violence be able to be stopped because right now on the streets so we continue to see footage of what is taking place it's very brutal very disturbing and it doesn't appear to be stopping those killed just mentioned volunteers are giving whistles to

asian people who brought the u.s. in some francisco though the project has been dealt a blow after some 700 whistles men for distribution were stolen limited to violence in america st some are looking at other ways to come to racism a publisher has pulled a children's book over its depiction of a martial arts instructor called muster one that some have deemed offensive on a form of pus of racial stereotyping others have called it a pointless exercise and for a few seconds bypassing the real problems facing people daily we spoke to historian gerald horton about joe biden's role in the issue at large. he needs to realize that by launching this new cold war against china he simultaneously helping to create conditions for the rise of violence it seems to me that for the foreseeable future we're going to have difficulties because china's ascendancy is

not going away any time soon and i'm afraid to say the political education in united states is not very sophisticated not very high and inevitably leads into anti asian american anti pacific islander america violence. still ahead a poll that's fallen the most americans are no unction it's about losing their jobs over something that i've said online because of the onset of council culture will take deeper into that the brain.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race in this on off spearing dramatic development the only. exists i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. hello again and the mom in the u.k.

has warned the prime minister that trouble is brewing unless muslims are showing more respect he also insinuated that the country risks quote becoming like france a statement that many have seen as a threat we'll get to that a little bit later it all comes after a teacher in northern england to parts of the muslim community by showing cartoons of the prophet muhammad to his class all we ask for is a bit of respect if one teacher can do it another teach can do it 5 years down the line and we do not want this to be the case otherwise we are not responsible for the actions of some individuals. has led to the teacher and his family going into hiding after receiving death threats the 29 year old has since apologized but has been suspended by the school though some local muslims are demanding that the school fire him right however a petition calling on the school to reinstate him has garnered over 70000 signatures the u.k.

department for education has the fended the teacher it is never acceptable to threaten the intimidates teaches we encourage dialogue between parents and schools when he she has emerged schools are free to include a full range of issues ideas and materials in their curriculum including where they are challenging a controversial subject or they obligations to ensure political balance. art rage over a similar case in france last october led to the brutal murder of some you'll see a history teacher he was beheaded by a terrorist after showing cartoons of the prophet muhammad to his people it's tim from christian concern. a political and social commentator locked horns over the issues raised. this could be very easily turning into some kind of a powder keg and you do not throw that matches into such things we've seen in france and in many european countries the rise of the far right we've seen

some 2 tiers of the right system pushing against islam pushing against muslims marginalizing them and it's open season on muslims courage attack them on free speech places and people make themselves are to be free speech martyrs or somehow muslims become inflamed of their own 15 western values so what's most alarming here is that a teacher asked her to go into hiding with police protection because what he's done he's he's discussed a point of discussion about a cartoon and the why the subject of blasphemy he hasn't actually hurt anyone he hasn't actually even threatened any violence and yet there are obviously very real threats of violence against him so much so that the police are going to protect him and take his family his wife and his children into hiding i think that is very very concerning and i think we need to recover a sense of normality and a sense of people being able to openly discuss and educate people about these things and i've been around the block a few times and had this discussion a few times every time we've had this discussion on free speech and debate we have

put down to worst of the ideas racism hatred we know it's not ok to be racist against muslims to make the argument is it alright to be racist or is this racist we need to learn about religion that we need to learn about what people believe and we need to openly discuss them and so people and supervisor let's be very clear about this that discussing a cartoon it's got about how it has nothing to do with basis and it's not racism at all so what's happening here is people are trying to shut down discussion and using threats of violence when people judge. people work with the english defense league you keep anti muslim interest across europe and the rest of the what i'll do you try and demonize muslims marginalize them would have you laugh you will not win the cultural debate. or is he ok to be poked fun at and be racist against muslims out of their loved ones read what else is and you don't get to be offensive towards us this is not the way a free society should work he should definitely be defended it's all he's done is

raise a discussion people should be free to discuss things in class if we're not free to discuss things we have a de facto blasphemy law in the country which is being enforced by more cruel that threatens violence against people. ok to a story that said generated a lot of interest when we 1st run it a little earlier in the week the issue of council culture it's having an impact on people's psychological well being a majority of people polled in the us no say the fear of being fired or reprimanded for views that the express online is a chilling finding that most people in the country now are afraid they would be fired if they expressed their real views on social media of the nearly 2000 people surveyed over 60 percent view quote growing council culture as a threat to their freedom while more than half see it is in danger of their job security we canvassed opinion on the subject among new yorkers. people are creative

and have a different mindset that artists decide to do different things people you next door neighbors affected the different you that you might not agree on i don't feel they used to ruin their entire lives over what they think in their mind even though it is harsh and it could really go like a pocket sometimes i think it does care people and it makes people think and make. sure you know. when appropriate. the idea of canceling counseling is bad and is not a good way of. creating difficult conversations because difficult conversations are very important to making difficult topics less difficult. that can really change the way that a person interacts with the world or using it. to also understand like being fed up with having to respond to people who are sorry if you're so low it's always more complicated when it's presented. a political commentator chadwick murray shared his

thoughts on consul culture and where it came from. in the past we've always sort of focused on the government a focused on protecting the constitution but of course in this in this day and age the threats are coming not really from the government they're coming from is this is from private corporations and most importantly from each other so that makes it interesting and different i think from anything else that that we really experience in culture before it's you know and it's such a lot of it's that's become a social media mob threats to docs to get people fired and it's not a threat on many levels and most importantly it has a chilling effect on public discourse and on people being able to speak their minds to openly. discuss an advocate for things that they currently that they truly believe in and their criticism that maybe what's going on in culture and in

government and even if you have to called yourself lucy just criticize example coulter 'd can do you cancel. if performing open heart surgery isn't enough but doing it in a burning hospital that's exactly what doctors in the far east of russia had to cope with on friday incredible stuff here is video from inside the operating theater during the fire the blaze broke out on the day most patients and stuff are evacuated from the building but a team of surgeons were operating on a patient at the time and had no choice but to keep going well the surgery went planned the patient was later moved to another hospital no one was injured in the fire and investigators say an electrical short circuit may be to blame for the blaze. after months of rest with protesters demanding the prime minister's resignation and people in both garia finally headed

to the polls for parliamentary elections now. support for the ruling party has eroded. feeling to fight corruption poverty to reform the judicial system however according to exit poll just recently announced. center right party is the largest share of the vote currently presuming the because of well one of the reasons i expected lower turnout as the country struggles with a 3rd wave of the demick despite the fears many have cast their vote. it's more dangerous in the tram or in the supermarket than here voting . it's a bit different but it works if you wish you can. be the only difference is the masks everything is very cold which isn't confusing there is tense and ties it to i think there is no place to panic and every must go and. take the race in the can

you. give it to be it only people be able to do everything around the world those places and even. i would see a season of things that. now the history of african americans is a well documented subject but what about the experiences of non whites in the soviet union a fascinating insight next into that period on people in our documentary black in the u.s.s.r. stay with us for one. problem drugs don't always come from unscrupulous dealers but from pharmacies to in every state in the united states we see me very sharp increase in the number of people seeking treatment for addiction to prescription opioids oids invited america under

the banner of medicine persisted with the pain but this is trying to wean him off though she just goes after dose after dose after dose and really became his drug dealer so who's to blame patients doctors manufacturers all the governments of. humanity has never seen such strange natural phenomena before giant creators appearing in the peninsula. one after another. but never the good news for us to stick your foot you know limb does what we thought of it that you would be at. this one appeared in 2020. how often and where will new creases appear as i described how dangerous oen day for humans mom only it is to go there one day and 2021 russian scientists came quite close to

working out what's going on. they built a full scale 3 d. model of the black hole. what started my interest i should say in black americans in the soviet union in the thirty's was finding this portrait even though i had gone to grad school of a master's degree in russian literature i speak russian and i had lived over there in the late eighties finding this portrait was was a stunning development for me how did i not know about this. i didn't know that this was a phenomenon that there were many. african-americans who went to russia in the in the thirty's. in the one.