behind. one of the world's largest collections some of them so deadly they make. among the stories that shaped this week's news r.t. gains exclusive access to the high security siberian lab where russia's khurana vaccine is being made developed. highly effective against. world health organization criticizes at least sluggish rollout of covert vaccines in europe. agencies executive director for europe explained the problem in figures . could be approaching

1000000 in the european reach. because we don't see. a man who's brutally assaulted in the new york subway and elderly filipino woman beaten in the city's streets in the latest. in the u.s. . and the u.k. warns his community cannot be held responsible for the actions of some individuals if muslims are treated with more respect it is in response to a teacher forced to go into hiding after showing his class cartoons of the prophet muhammad we discussed the issue. we. all. here is the teacher. with police protection.

broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow recapping the week's top stories with our weekly program this is r t international. in the war on the pandemic russia has an array of weapons among them the epi vax corona vaccine this week it became available in all russian regions as part of the mass vaccination campaign the shots developers say it is safe 100 percent effective at producing antibodies and and fight off mutant strains r.t. was invited to visit the high security lab in the heart of siberia where it is made . 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 it isolates it and from here at the r.n.a. is being passed on for further study and work this is the preferred vinyl stage of producing a vaccine basically here they are preparing a foundation for it it's protein based so the substance in this is literally called soup or well broth it contains all the nutrients that will make this protein

grow and as soon as it is ready it 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. unlimited times one with the yearly flu vaccinations both in the vaccine develops a 3 line to fans like to enter a room you need to open a door the vaccine forms on tea 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 while the new response destroys the infected cell several high profile russian officials have already chosen app iraq as their covert jab 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 to why how they walk but all of them meet such requirements it should be the same with corona virus vaccine 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 done of reporting from the heart of siberia. germany's vaccination program has suffered another blow with berlin

again suspending use of the astra zeneca jab this time for the under sixty's that has left those who have already had their 1st shot 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 those under 60 can still receive the shot but only on prescription and after an individual risk assessment comes as a number of people suffered blood clots after vaccination some in berlin say that they are tired of the government's flip flops on the vaccine. yes 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 to 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 so i think it is very very good that the vaccines were as a valid so fast and that 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 also followed suit this week while canada suspended the use of the job for those under 55 after the country's national advisory committee decided it wasn't worth the risk vaccines image has been tarnished over fears of rare but potentially fatal blood clots that prompted an investigation by the medical regulator which found no direct link and said the benefits outweigh the risks but

added it would continue with the probe meanwhile the same organization the european medicines agency recently approved a new name for the astra zeneca jab vax zev rio there has been speculation the company has been decided on rebranding in response to public safety concerns infectious disease expert bob however says there is 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 in the brain and the disseminated coagulation about the body just terrified and they're seeing that 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. the a vaccine or rollout as a whole has been beset by problems with several states now looking to break away from the joint purchase scheme the w.h.o. has also expressed concerns calling the e.u.'s efforts unacceptably slow according to the organization only 4 percent of those within the block have taken 2 doses of the vaccine so far earlier my colleague you know harvey discussed that and astra zeneca has troubles with the chose european chief. we're both alarms and frustrates at that moment we're alarmed because we're rapidly approaching 1000000 deaths in the european region without 44000000 cases of code it 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 for and things fancy 140 days in some cases but also across states it's because we don't see these vaccines reaching arms fast enough but this

really is a course 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 vaccines 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 seneca vaccine is said country should keep using and of course there's that there's a great need for it and a great demand for it but there are several countries and more than a dozen countries at their full of using it what is the stands now on astra zeneca is vaccine just in 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 its confidence of the communities that are relying on that vaccine. at the astra zeneca bassett this is very important that we get this vaccine back online where it's been temporarily suspended but at this point there's no cause 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 few of its own in the 1st one out there are those put on the market with 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 pothole it 60 something that out we should necessarily just just in terms of the vaccines and where different vaccines used split the vaccine from what we've seen from the russian federation's the dates of that's available here is to be an effective and safe vaccine is used in many member

states and in some of the states to do not have access to the vaccines that are listed for it's really the russian box in that it's come to that aid and supports so splitting 3 being used in many member states it does not count european medicines approval hence it doesn't have e.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 also this week the long awaited w.h.o. report on the origins of covert 1000 was released but immediately faced sharp criticism worldwide for leaving many questions still unanswered even the organization's director general has called for further research we asked a russian member of the han mission why getting to the bottom of the outbreak is proving so difficult. which will cause

a mission started off into 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. we since we've managed to find out that the virus supposedly emerged in the period between the middle of november and the beginning of december however we don't know the exact location of the outbreak in my view it was in china but it's not clear yet it's unlikely though that the outbreak occurred in a wet market most probably it was some market visitor who had already been infected and spread the virus this suggestion derives from the fact that there were quite a large number of patients who had nothing to do with the markets we don't know who the 1st patient was neither do we know the natural origin of covert 19 based on our common knowledge of various coronaviruses we suggest it's a but might have been

a source. the issue is very much politicized everyone is trying to find someone to blame i've never considered the oblique hypothesis a theory there's so much talk about this in the media though but people don't really have an idea there is no scientific evidence or facts proving a leak as of today based on what we saw i can say that the suspect in a laboratory is run properly by well trained staff there is total compliance with all the rules regarding work with viruses of this has a class or even the class above the laboratory is regularly audited and is in the constant scrutiny of competence international organizations building from that we therefore can't say that a lab leak might have been the cause. we didn't feel any pressure coming from our chinese colleagues actually it wouldn't even be the case i can 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. and what would have been the point of pressurising us we hardly liaise with officials we were largely in touch with scientists. and asian attacks in the us show no sign of letting up to shockingly brutal assaults happen 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 a bit of warning you may find the following video quite 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. violence and to develop safety inclusion and belong in 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 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 was killed just mentioned volunteers are giving out whistles to elderly asian people throughout the u.s. in san francisco though the project has been dealt a blow after some 700 whistles were stolen amid violence in america's streets some are looking at other ways to counter racism a publisher has pulled a children's book over its depictions of a martial arts instructor called master wong that some have deemed offensive and a form of passive racial stereotyping others have called it

a pointless exercise in virtue signaling and bypassing the real problems facing asian people we spoke to historian gerald horne about joe biden's possible 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 bored 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 bleeds into asian american anti pacific islander america violence. and the mom in the u.k. has warned of the prime minister that trouble is brewing unless muslims are shown more respect is also in simulated country risks quote becoming like

france a statement that many of us as a threat is after a teacher in northern england outraged parts of the muslim community by showing cartoons of the prophet mohammed 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 the teacher and his family are now in hiding after receiving death threats the 29 year old has since apologized but has been suspended from his job some local muslims are demanding the school fire him outright however a petition calling for him to be reinstated has gained more than $70000.00 signatures the u.k. department of education has defended the teacher it is never acceptable to threaten the wing to mandate teaches we encourage dialogue between parents and schools when he 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 to they obligations to ensure political balance. outrage over a similar case in france last october led to the brutal murder of samuel paddy a history teacher he was beheaded by a terrorist after showing cartoons of the prophet muhammad to his pupils during a discussion on freedom of expression to dip a from christian concern and mo ansari political 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 tier civil rights 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 up 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 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 super about it 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 and what's happening here is people are trying to shut down discussion and using threats of violence when people judge. people who 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 enough 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. the issue of canceled culture is having an

impact on people psychological well being a majority of people polled in the us say that they fear being sacked or reprimanded for views they share online is a chilling finding that most people in the country now are afraid they would be fired if they express their real views on social media of the nearly 2000 people surveyed to 2 thirds view growing council can culture as a threat to their freedom while more than half see it as an endangered job security we got opinion among new yorkers. people are creative and have a different mindset some artist decide to do different things people you next door neighbor the fact of 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 maybe for. sure you know. inappropriate.

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 could 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 so sorry if you're so low it's always more complicated and it's presented. political commentator child with more shared his thoughts on council culture and from where it emerged. in the past we've always sort of focused on the government and 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 business it 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 are the things that they truly believe in and their criticism that maybe what's going on in culture and government and even the culture itself as we've seen just criticize example coulter 'd can do you can feel. as if performing open heart surgery isn't hard enough how about doing it in a burning building that is exactly what doctors in the far east of russia had to cope with on friday here's a video from inside the operating theater during the fire the blaze broke out at

around midday with most patients and staff quickly evacuating the hospital but a team of surgeons were operating on the patient at the time and had no choice but to keep going the surgery went as planned and the patient was later moved to another clinic no one was injured in the fire investigators say that an electrical fault may be to blame. after months of unrest with protesters demanding the prime minister's resignation people in bulgaria have finally gone to the polls for parliamentary elections supporting support for the ruling party had eroded over corruption poverty and failure to reform the judicial system however. spite that exit polls predict prime minister boyko but it solves center right party has secured the largest share of the vote there was a smaller turnout than in previous years as the country struggles with the 3rd wave of the pandemic so many took the chance to have their say despite covert fears.

it's more dangerous in the tram or in the supermarket than here voting. it's a bit different but it works if you wished you can. be the only difference is the 12 there in masks everything is very cold which isn't confusing there is tense in the ties it to i think there is no place for panic and every person must go and will take into consideration the can you go on with it and didn't see creation's in . this adultery never to be poor but only people given everything to the wrong to kill those elections that even. i would see it seems that all things it. does for in this are more of the weekly in 31 and a half minute states. thank

you all i saw. people believe i 1st. if you're born into a poor family if you're born into a minority family if you're born into a family that only has a single parent that really constrains your life chances people are lavish 15 years old if you're born into generational poverty. it's a. fight every day so you you eat your needs and the needs of your family.

i'm afshin rattansi we're going underground on easter monday for a very special episode looking at some of the biggest questions posed by both science and religion from the very beginnings of life to a place within the universe pentagon advisor neil de grasse tyson has just published cosmic queries and i asked him about earlier about myths from people believing the earth was flat to the vaccine as of the coronavirus pandemic age at the time people long ago thought earth was flat it's because it kind of looked that way and it felt that way and it kind of made sense and there's no reference for example in the bible that identifies birth as 3 dimensional object and all references that it does make have it as a flat disc and in one case perhaps metaphorically referred to corners but the point is the methods and tools of science that we now in.