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humanitarian tragedy 21st century. your top stories. the european court of human rights has ruled that. children are consistent with international law and. the ruling is unrelated to the. there are fears that it could lead to tougher policies from governments. this case in fact started long before anybody had ever heard of covert 19 1st time it appeared in the european court of human rights was in 2013 and already been going through the court systems in the czech republic for a long time before that the complaint was brought by families in the czech republic

who'd either being fined or their children had been refused entry to early years education kindergartens and nursery schools because they hadn't been vaccinated by their parents and their parents refused to have them vaccinated what the court ruled on thursday was that the finding of those parents on the floor at the compulsory vaccination program in the czech republic was not a breach of the european convention on human rights particularly when it came to article 8 which deals with respect for private life what the court ruled was that vaccinations are necessary in society the court clarified that ultimately the issue to be determined was not whether the different less prescriptive policy might have been adopted rather it was whether the check off to use had exceeded their wide margin of appreciation in this area it concludes that the impune measures could be

regarded as being necessary in a democratic society the rules in the czech republic album that dissimilar from all the nations in the e.u. as well as many of the nations around the world if you're sending children to kindergartens or nursery schools they have to be vaccinated against 9 different illnesses and diseases now these include incredibly serious things like measles hooping cough hepatitis b. tetanus as well as now what the court ruled on thursday in this was the 1st time that the european court of human rights is ever got involved in compulsory vaccination programs and made a ruling on them but what they said that it was in the best interest of children that they receive these vaccinations before they go into the nursery school in kindergarten classes and start mixing with all the children. the judgment emphasizes that in all decisions concerning children the best interests must be of paramount importance of regards we mean a zation the objective has to be that every child is protected against serious

diseases through vaccination or by virtue of herd immunity the check health policy could therefore be said to be consistent with the best interests of the children who were its focus or while the ruling on thursday makes no reference whatsoever to covert 1000 or the current situation we all find ourselves in the covert 19 pandemic has been thoroughly ground for anti vax conscripts the theorists with numerous conspiracy theories abound both online and elsewhere many of them relating to potential forced vaccination now what this ruling on thursday does from the european court of human rights is it sets precedent that obligatory vaccinations don't contravene the european court on human rights what it does not do in any way is give any european nation the right to start forcing vaccinations on any of its citizens of course it coming out during this huge vaccination program we're all

going through with vaccines throughout the news all over the world right now this is why this particular ruling from one of europe's top courts has made top billing in the news. the german chancellor has had yet another change of heart as she fights germany's 3rd wave of the pandemic i'm glad merkel has now backed a short term national lockdown according to the government's deputy spokesperson. this being is any call for a short uniform lockdown is right adjoint uniform federal approach would also be important here the variety of fruits adopted does not contribute to security and acceptance as the moment. a long running covert restrictions in germany have taken a severe toll on the federal budget the public sector deficit has now hit almost 190000000000 euros which is the highest level since reunification occurred 3 decades ago. now a member of the ruling c.d.u.

party economics professor max auto spoke to our sister channel r.t. deutsche he said the deficit will have a severe knock on effect for already struggling businesses and workers. no question the clues of the world trade has partially collapsed in germany itself there are structural deviations retail trade hasn't grown for a long time huge shortfalls in revenue have occurred in the middle class restaurants and the hotel business there are also changes in the country's system we're really losing jobs because of retail bankruptcies this is not happened to everyone yet but it will happen to many more now we already have a lot of unemployed people trade has not withstood the strong recession and germany in particular because of the strict lockdown and our dependence on world trade i would rate this crisis twice as severe as the financial crisis in 2008 and i believe that now in the midst of the covert crisis the mood has changed dramatically at 1st everyone thought that we were well equipped and then there was

180 degree turn we have very weak politicians they are just followers we are now definitely dealing with the digitalisation lobby a panic lobby a bullying lobby and a pharmaceutical lobby merkel is busy figuring out how best to stay in power the big lobbyists have become very influential to. a biological fukushima how one scientist as described the copen situation in brazil after more than 4000 deaths in a day of a physician told us the scale of the problem. the current situation is this 3 me see here in brazil is very critical right now we are in the middle of a national hospital collapse and exponential growth of new cases in the country for the 1st time in brazilian history and april we may have more deaths in the country diverse this has never happened in brazil is inside of brazil in history what we

needed now is a national park but we are 4000 that they think the brazilian people will support their call because they know we have nothing else to do with this place or brazil's covert death toll has now passed 340002nd only to the united states despite the surge and a collapsing health system president also an auto insists the nation will not be put under lockdown so we hit the streets of sao paolo this feedback. asked passages that i think part of the blame is ours from people getting relaxed after so long in this situation but i believe the bigger blame is on our president who always makes an aperitif more difficult making it harder to interact with the rest of the world. food i believe is the result of people having to relax too much after all the improvements people have to know that if it was getting better we should keep doing what was being done to improve but as it is system we brazilians are in

a unique situation due to the government we have that doesn't care about the millions of people that are dying every day or even worse i even think the president celebrates. or brazilian authorities have maintained the country will get quote back to business in a couple of months but the position we spoke to well it's not terribly optimistic. the country is not going to be back to normal in 2 or 3 months he may take half a year or more just to good and then make under control let alone to get back to normal life and a government didn't work hard and off to procure to buy tens of millions of dollars that brazil needs to vaccinate aids its people so we have unlimited supply and current levels 'd we have vaccinating barely half a 1000000 people a day when we should be vaccinating at least 2 to 3000000 people a day so we need to double or triple the number 6 of people vaccinated 'd but the problem is the supply of vaccines that brazil has been able to acquire if we don't

do anything we could be in to me 2 of a story co tragedy here i mean the problem is the largest humanitarian tragedy of the 21st century. the european medicines agency is standing by britain's astra zeneca vaccine the regulator says the benefits outweigh the risks while that noting blood clots should be listed now as rare side effects of the agency has received more than 200 reports of severe blood clots in those getting the shot though that is among the more than 38000000 who have been inoculated all across europe meanwhile u.k. authorities are now saying that people under the age of 30 will be offered alternatives to the astra zeneca job due to the possible blood clot link 80 people in the country have suffered clotting after a dose and 19 have died but britain's regulator is taking the same line as the european medicines agency or at least that's according to our correspondent what

i'd guess d.f. . the takeaway the message that europe's health authorities want to leave you with is that it's still worth it the benefits outweigh the risks the benefits outweigh the risks how does become almost a slew good for the astra zeneca prove it vaccine earth future cases of unusual. blood clotting following vaccination with the astra zeneca vaccine should be listed as possible side effects of the vaccine it's important starts both vaccinated people and health care professionals are aware of the signs and symptoms of these unusual blood clotting to cylinders so that they could be spotted quickly to minimize any possible risks so why did it take so long i mean the rumors began months and months ago and it was all in the news on t.v. in the papers and the company kept telling everyone the same thing there's a new link between the jab and the well dive analysis of our safety

data more than 10000000 records has shown no evidence of an increased risk of palm in your families or deep vein thrombosis and a defined age group gender batch or in any particular country unfortunately there was a link and now the astra zeneca job will have either diesel warning or it can cause blood clots and potentially death in people as young as 8 seed the age the youngest deceased and still they say it's worth it unless of course you can go and get another job in which case probably best to go for that their words adults who are age 18 to 29 years old who do not have an underlying health condition that puts them at higher risk from serious coben 1000 disease should be offered an alternative covert night in fact seen in preference to the astra zeneca vaccine

where such an alternative face seen is available over a dozen countries only counting the european union have suspended vaccination with the astra zeneca vaccine or vax servia to please their marketing department though i doubt that a simple rebranding is going to cleanse their reputation i would definitely say is the stop it move because changing. name which means changing your shop window right in the midst of a crisis rather than increasing trust will increase because it always indicates that there is something you want to hide so i absolutely do not understand how 'd a company comes to such a decision at the end of the day i can't help but partially agree with them the alternative waiting for another vaccine could have cost thousands of lives but only partially they let these rumors steward fessed up for months before coming out and admitting that essentially people were rights to be afraid and that unfortunately

has done irreparable damage to the vaccination drive worldwide. northern ireland has been gripped by 6 nights of rioting loyalists and unionist faced off amid a wave of anger over post trade barriers between the north and the republic we'll show you the scene in belfast in late afternoon early evening on wednesday a bus was torched and more than $41.00 officers were injured during clashes rocks and petrol bombs were thrown at police a northern ireland's 1st minister arlene foster has urged both sides to show restraint as the british prime minister has expressed his alarm and called for dialogue. i am deeply concerned by the scenes of violence northern ireland especially attacks on the p.s. and i who are protecting the public and businesses attacks on a bus driver and the assault of a journalist this week to resolve differences is through dialogue not violence or

criminality. meanwhile northern ireland's justice minister has blamed the u.k. government for the flare up now i mean long accuse the conservatives of dishonesty over the way brek said it would affect the irish border saying they promised quote unfettered access while failing to work through the legal consequences she also slammed the british government's decision to suspend the northern ireland protocol which was a part of the u.k.'s withdrawal agreement with the e.u. aimed at ensuring an open border a bit earlier i spoke with jonathan tong professor of british and irish politics he thinks the government made a series of false promises to the people of northern ireland where the british government bonds johnson in particular have to bear a considerable amount of responsibility it was part of johnson to do went over to belfast and totally democratic party the largest party in northern ireland told the public party conference 3 years ago that it would be intolerable for any british government to preside over a border in the irish sea johnson says hockey's previous us of treason may signing

a deal with a year for his johnson does not and since then he spends a lot of time to tending that the reason the border between great britain and northern ireland so you disagree or the single on future terrible sense of betrayal over what the prime minister was don't think that boris johnson needs to go to northern ireland explain what he's done in terms of of the protocol and try and also meet with the e.u. leaders to instigate similarly the worst effects the protocol and diminish the number of checks go on to go between great britain and northern ireland otherwise we are looking ahead to a grim summit potentially of violence in northern ireland. or if your new stories offer a very short break. to

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were not see russia's foreign minister has dismissed washington's attempts to do right all the north stream to gas pipeline project calling them a dead end strategy our correspondent is traveling with for off on a trip to kazakhstan. there have been reports that the united states army pointing a special envoy to europe with one thing stopping the north stream to project down just to remind the north stream to is a gas pipeline going from russia via sea bed into germany now if this envoy is appointed their goal will be traveling across europe talking to european leaders like in germany for example or denmark and convincing them to stop the construction russia's top diplomat sergey lavrov has commented on this strategy on this potential step that the united states might take he did not mince his words have a listen. even a structure like the council already publishes material criticizing the united states' absolute deadlock strategy over russia which does not produce any results

in terms of the goals that were declared when sanctions were imposed now from the very outset the united states have been against this project against nordstrom to saying that russia will be using this pipeline as a geopolitical weapon the geopolitical tool moscow in turn has been saying that this spy plane simply makes a lot of economic sense and it makes russia's task of delivering natural gas from russia into europe just simply move flawless and easier but will that this didn't stop the united states from repeatedly slapping sanctions onto this project and onto companies involved in the construction circular labral has also commented on the state of russia u.s. relations in general saying that well in fact russia can only rely on itself when it comes to some key state interest saying quote unquote that the u.s. and european partners are unreliable as an example he talked about the situation

around the so-called open skies agreement with the united states saying that lately russia has been receiving some very mixed messages from the from the united states from washington as to whether or not it is staying or leaving at. and if it is abandoning. the developers of russia's 2nd. released efficiency data or the research virology says the interim results are out for the corona shot with more details. overall the data about corona is quite encouraging but the company behind the shot has released data showing that infections can occur after the shot has been given out of a group of 150 people 28 later tested positive for corona virus but this isn't anything to be particularly alarmed about because the company said that these were people 60 years and older who would not remain isolated during the vaccination

process itself about corona requires 2 shots given 2 weeks apart and only a few weeks after that 2nd shot is given will the body be able to produce a sufficient level of antibodies which is of course the norm for all of the vaccines that are out on the market right now now dr has said most of those cases actually did occur within the $42.00 days necessary for the body to build up its munity there are still some cases of infection and people who have had the corona vaccination as is the case with any coated 90 job in the vast majority of cases it occurs when the person didn't have time to form a fully fledged immune response the legal studies of volunteers over the age of $65.00 show 94 percent efficiency in production taking into account the immunity kutta to a stix of this group we consider the indicates is as good in addition to that it's believe that at the back khurana will be easily adopted in order to fight any future mutations that might arise and the world so it's overall efficacy is quite

high as is its ability to prevent severe cases which again is the typical for almost all that is currently available in fact just a few days ago there was quite a big story that hit the news that the president of argentina had tested positive for cocaine 1000 after having said that he got russia's 1st coronavirus vaccine sputnik v. now according to reports he's remained largely asymptomatic suffering only a mild fever and the makers of sputnik he have come out reiterating the fact that sputnik v. is 100 percent effective against severe cases and they also wish the president a speedy recovery so while. action is highly possible after getting vaccinated it seems that if you wait the appropriate amount of time for your body to build up immunity and that helps prevent any further and factions and of course even if you do get sick the cases are quite mild. the world health organization has doubled down on his concerns over vaccine passports saying their introduction could survive yearly sharpens social divides. we would not like to see the vaccination

passport as a requirement for entry or exit because we're not certain a distaste of the vaccine prevents transmission there are all those other questions apart from the question of discrimination against the people who are not able to have the vaccine for one reason or another one of the worst disputes is in the united states at the white house has ruled out mandatory vaccine passports along with state governors companies on educational institutions are looking to push forward with the plans colleges have said they'll require proof of inoculation when students start a new academic year in the autumn. we got strongly different views on covert passports from our panel of guests with one form or any piece stating that they are a fundamental attack on your freedoms and liberties. this is not just like being called a person of a state or a country which is what a passport is about what we're looking at here is

a wholly different scenario which would apply globally where corporations are able to suggest that you can't fly out of countries get on boats and this would be basically a threat to freedom civil liberties and in some cases the health of individuals as well where you can focus will do comply there are allowed to do certain things and i think people will see that as a cruel it's not that well listen you know for example without your schools if you don't have certain direction you can't go to school and so we all there was that we need our children going to schools all i guess will sacrifice we get the vaccination no i applaud private organizations for example who say you can't commit here unless you can prove that you can actually do it because. you know we're going to exercise our right to protect ourselves in our scene past 1st are a very bad idea for public health for a few different reasons one is that it was sort of encourage or force younger very

low risk people who get their vaccine before the flu and poorer older people saw by doing their fear will actually increase the amount of death another reason is that public health one of the principles of public health is trust and to make an acquirer serve a vaccine passport for that here would years trust in public health authorities any vaccines or they seem perth but his boss an ethical and moral. they seem perth but his boss an ethical and moral. they are some of the top lights here at r.t. international for this hour my colleague colleen bray is here at the top of the hour with more of your thursday stories of you can join him then.

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