well if you believe that easy. going while it's in this country. president biden announces a executive. moves of preempted by the state of arizona which has already taken steps to block the reform. european court of human rights rules that it's legal for countries to force vaccines on children in a case that's raised fears of compulsory. on the european medicines agency sticks to its line that the benefits of the astra zeneca outweigh the risks the regulator says should now be listed as a very effective the drug. life

from moscow this is our senior international right welcome to the program 1st. joe biden has unveiled 6 executive orders a tightening firearm controls. violence that the u.s. president called an international embarrassment gun violence in this country is an epidemic whether congress acts or not i'm going to use all the resources in my disposal to keep the american people safe from gun violence but there's much more in the congress can do to help that effort. and they can do it right now so we have joe biden president of the united states talking about how there is an epidemic of gun violence in the united states and putting forward executive actions intended to address that epidemic now the 1st proposal we heard from the white house was an effort to crack down on how guns are sold he referenced ghost guns which are guns

that people manufacture by they they purchase kits to make them in their homes he talked about gun show loopholes and background checks furthermore joe biden discussed what he calls the red flag legislation that exists in a number of states where if a person is deemed to be a threat to themselves or to others they are temporarily deprived of their guns at this point biden has been facing a huge amount of pressure from gun control supporters due to the fact that there has been a surge in gun violence you saw last year there were 20000 gun related deaths that took place and that is a 25 percent increase since 2019 that we've seen this surge of gun deaths other was recently an event where 5 people were killed in south carolina including 2 children and that was certainly not the 1st mass shooting that happened in 2021 let's review some of the events that have been happening in the united states of america.

now it's important to note that there is certainly not unity around these moves that joe biden has proposed we've. governor of the state of arizona put together a piece of legislation prohibiting sheriffs and police officers from carrying out any order that was deemed to be in violation of the 2nd amendment of the us constitution which guarantees the right to own a firearm the state of arizona and its political subdivision supreme hit it from utilizing any financial resources were steeper snell to administer cool parade with

or enforce a new law act order rule treaty or regulation of the federal government that is inconsistent with any law of the state regarding the regulation of firearms much like the vaccine passports there's a big divide between red states and blue states and we've seen vaccine passports already outlawed in texas and florida preemptively as republicans just don't see eye to eye with democrats on this gun control is yet another example of how polarized the united states is becoming in 2021. european court of human rights has ruled that compulsory vaccinations for children are consistent with international law and could be regarded as necessary the rulings are related to the covert pandemic but there are fears that it could lead to toughen policies from some governments as i go to correspondent peter all of it. 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 'd 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 finding all of those parents on the floor of 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 a different less prescriptive policy might have been adopted rather it was whether

the check authors who use had exceeded their wide margin of appreciation in this area they concluded that the impune measures could be regarded as being necessary in a democratic society and the rules in the czech republic that dissimilar from other nations in the e.u. as well as many other 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 and this was the 1st time that the european court of human rights has 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 30 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 we've been getting reaction to the ruling and hearing whether it could have any impact on covert shots. situation that moment is we were under enormous pressure i think of that from the government advertising campaigns from the media etc to have a jab now there are people in the media in politics who have actually called for compulsory mandatory 2 vaccinations on the grounds it's for the good of society so it is worrying this judgment is it's worrying but think the one point is is that vaccines whether or not we take the vaccine should be up to the individual if we go down the line of saying look my md of 3 vaccinations not just for kids but measles

or protect the soil ever but it should be for adults to cove it then i think that's a slippery slope it is something very unusual for the court because the court has to arm i'll decide whether it is good for the society because vaccine is important for not only the person who will take the vaccine but also for other persons who caught dig the vaccine. into. a tear in the unity of the case may be different for our core another virus vaccine because it's not for children is for i don't it's a new vaccine contrary to the vaccine. devoted to the children in the czech republic to the un convention of the child the paramount seed principle is something under which any drafting of legislation must abide by and any rules made that do affect children must consider their welfare 1st when you're looking at

compulsory kovi that scene's you not looking at those sorts of protections a big problem with coronavirus vaccination is that conspiracy theorists they are getting it wrong there is a lot of misinformation around i don't think it's going to be a compulsory vaccine in force by the government but i do think there are people like airlines in the tourist industry. i'm going to force that through the back door. european medicines agency is standing by britain's astra zeneca jab saying that the benefits outweigh the risks while noting that blood clots should be listed as rare side effects the agency has received more than 200 reports of unusual blood clots in those getting the shot that's among more than 30000000 have been inoculated across europe over the u.k. the authorities there say that people under the age of 30 will be offered alternatives to the astra zeneca job due to the possible blood clot leg 80 people

in the country have suffered clotting after a dose 19 have died but britain's regulator is taking the same line as the european medicines agency but i guess the ever ports. 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 slogan for the astra zeneca prove it vaccine earth poor cheap cases of unusual blood clotting following vaccination with the astra zeneca vaccine should be listed as possible side effects of the vaccine it's unfortunate that both vaccinated people and health care professionals are aware of the signs and symptoms of these unusual blood clotting disorder research 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 that it was all in the news on t.v.

and 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 billie's or deep vein thrombosis and defined age group gender or in any particular . country unfortunately there was a link and now the astra zeneca job will have an additional warning on 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 will who do not have an underlying health condition that puts them at higher risk from serious kovan 1000 disease should be offered an

alternative covered night in fact seen in preference to the astra zeneca vaccine where such an alternative is available over a dozen countries only counting the european union have suspended vaccination with the astra zeneca vaccine or that servia to please their marketing department though i doubt that a simple rebranding is going to cleanse their reputation i would definitely say is a stupid move because changing the 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 fester 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. vaccine shortages across the you have prompted several member states to question the blocks a joint procurement scheme austria's one of them and chancellor sebastian curtis said he'd be in favor of buying russian sputnik vico which. it would help us a lot because the vaccination process would be significantly accelerated i advocate that we do this we are now coordinating this with the federal government i really hope that we will be able to acquire this vaccine as well as use it this is not only my decision but i strongly support it the european medicines agency is yet to approve the russian vaccine but former european commission president says that if the regulator does give the green light the e.u.

should be included in the procurement program. meantime the russian direct investment fund which is behind these sputnik the rollout says it's now in talks with germany on supplying the job berlin's made it clear that it will go ahead with using the shot if it passes the approval process which has now been dragging on for several months. joining us now is bob van who's a professor of neurology at the university of vienna professor welcome to the program good to have you with us the e.u. trying to stick with this joint procurement system you can appreciate why it doesn't want a 27 nation free for all but it's really not working is it who's to blame here the 27 bickering nations or the centralized system. well i think both at the end of the day but remember i'm not here to blame anybody you played a blame game and i think even on your on your report taj and the comments that were me it's very clear that there were short comments listen we need the vaccines and

the problem is it was a political initially we many people in europe didn't except the russian vaccine i was one of the 1st if you remember well in your program roughly half a year ago i was saying astutely has good data good look for it don't look at it as a national issue it this is this is a world issue and sputnik is a good vaccine and yet there were coming out and saying well this is not what we want let's look at the european and i'll turn it is and you see here the problem is the politicians have fields to cover the nations with adequate back seeing dozes and this is a problem we have we don't have enough back scenes and that's why if i go back from what you said basically is that you're trying to keep these vaccine on board because they have no other choice and if you see what you would see right now is that we're going back and asking russia for a split mix we should have known that much much earlier we need all that clears all the players on the table in that includes the scrutiny expect see which has

excellent data out there as has pfizer and as has modern so we should know that much earlier in order to be able to provide our nationals with adequate vaccine who was in tears and not try to bypass and say well these are side effects now with astra zeneca it's bad but it's not that bad this is not what we want we want enough vaccine goes it is out there and now we are paying for those political shortcomings with human lives. let's just listen to some of the other political criticism that's come about through trying to about the delays in getting the sputnik they added into europe that's been dragging on for 7 months now that is a quick listen to what form a french presidential candidate i don't have milling phone had to say. young i see blackwell but there are not enough vaccines but why is that because we were held hostage by the stupid decisions of the uber iraq recy which views vaccines like any

other product so france refused for ideological reasons to get a supply of the russian cuban or chinese vaccines yes i said pretty much echoing what you were saying at length just a minute ago that so is it down to the individual nations that are doing this and what's their beef with them because presumably science is science i totally agree and again we have to keep that golden word is fats 1st you cannot go back and say this has a russian flag on it this has an american flag on it is has a french flag on it it needs to be a back seat that works and the work suit works well there now works pfizer works and we have some issues with astra zeneca it's a threat now it doesn't mean we should definitely you know pull back and so we're not going to use it but we have to inform our nationals we have to inform the people out of the street that well this is what we have for example we don't have enough vaccines at this moment you know you have a choice these are the numbers this is what we do austria fortunately or

unfortunately has kept astra zeneca on the table some other countries have not but i think it's much better if we go out in just 5 more wrecked scenes one thing is they are available and as money for the french colleague just mentioned earlier it was a big political mistake to put politics under the table when we're talking about human lives talking about science in talking about vaccines this was a major mistake and as you say we are paying the price as we speak in the austria and germany already starting to talk to try and get their own supplies and that you think that those kind of talks are going to force the procurement hand at the end of the day decisions going to have to be made sooner or later because patience is going to run out. let me tell you the very clear it's my personal opinion i'm a cancer surgeon i'm not a vaccine expert in a sense i'm out of my rolla just normal vaccine expert in terms of evaluating vaccines on the 1st piece but i can tell you something we are losing patients

having to max independent ics has a big collateral damage today which we all are not aware of we are losing patients with cancer those patients have been neglected so surgeries postponed so it's not only about losing patients to cope that all of these missing vaccines that we have have led also it an issue with cancer patients so this is a huge problem right now losing patients to cove it is one issue and you're losing patients to cancer which is the collateral damage and we will pay for it at mistake in the next years to come so please go out and this this is my appelle to basically politicians across the across the political parties we need to go by. it doesn't matter where they are from we need to data they need to be cleaned they need to be evaluated they don't have to have necessarily the same kind of the ada that are comparable but they need to have a clear scheme we haven't e.m.e.a. you have to look at it and politics have to be put aside and by the way i can tell

you honestly austria's on the frame of that we are into from what i understand from my government the are in the process of buying and exceeding the russian vaccine for us tria this needs to be done because we need every dose now what are we going to give a patient of the sputnik or advisor or johnson or and what they're not it doesn't matter didn't have to be available and pull it out with has been done with split make so many years so many months now has been a big mistake and ok now that will catch up with you again when we hit the next chapter of this saga for another professor john in the university austria vienna thank you very much for joining us. still to come the brazilian president doubles down on his resistance to knock downs despite soaring coby deaths we're going to hear a bleak assessment from a doctor in brazil after this. so

what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race in his own experience dramatic development 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. seemed wrong but. just don't. get to shape our day to educate and indeed from an equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart. she's to look for common ground.

to remember monopoly it's great to have hotels on boardwalk and park place. well run transit big monopoly. a biological fukushima that's how scientists describe the situation and brazil after more than 4000 deaths in a single day he's been outlining the scale of the problem to us. the current situation is this 3 me sit 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 the brazilians in the entire brazilian history what we needed now is a national park but we 4000 that they think the brazilian people will support the

call because they know we have nothing else to do at this point. with us from covert in brazil of past 340000 making it 2nd only to the united states but despite the horrific surge and the collapsing health system president bolton are insists that the nation won't be put under lockdown we've been getting reaction in sao paolo. it's just 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 and a path 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. brazilian authorities maintain that the country will get quote back to business in a couple of months but the physician we spoke to warns that that is unlikely. the country is not going to be back to normal in 2 or 3 months you may take half a year or more just a good debate and then make under control let alone to get back to normal life the government didn't work hard and off to procure to buy tens of millions of those that brazil needs to vaccinated its people so we have unlimited supply and current levels 'd we have vaccinating barely 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 historical tragedy here i mean probably the largest humanitarian tragedy of the

21st century. northern ireland's now been gripped by 6 nights of rioting its worst in years program loyalists and irish nationalists faced off amid a wave of anger over post bricks and trade barriers between the north and the republic now this was the scene in belfast on wednesday a bus was taught to more than $41.00 officers were injured during the clashes rocks and petrol bombs were hold of police northern ireland's 1st minister ali foster's urged both sides to show restraint and the british prime minister's expressed his alarm and called for dialogue. i am deeply concerned by the scenes of violence in 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 through dialogue not violence or criminality. meanwhile northern ireland's justice ministers blamed the u.k. government for the flare up naimi long accuse the conservatives of dishonesty over

the way it would affect the irish border saying they promised 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 part of the u.k.'s withdrawal agreement with the e.u. aimed at ensuring an open border we're spoke with jonathan tong who's a professor of british and irish politics he thinks the government made a series of false promises to the people of northern ireland. well i think the british government of course johnson and in particular have to bear a considerable amount of responsibility it was far as johnson who went over to belfast and totally democratic party the laws part you know not until the public party conference 3 years ago that it would be intolerable for any british government to preside over a border in the obvious a course johnson is talking is precisely treason make the signing of the deal within a year for his johnson it 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 listen more the singalong few terrible sense no betrayal

over what the prime minister has done think that boris johnson needs to go to northern ireland explain what he's done in terms of the protocol and try and also meet with the e.u. leaders to instigate some of the the worst effects the protocol and diminish the number of checks go home for good between great britain and northern ireland otherwise we're looking at a grim some of potentially of violence in northern ireland. as should use for now your next after the kaiser report. the world is driven by a dream shaped by. the

day or thinks. we dared to ask. problem drugs don't always come from unscrupulous dealers but from pharmacies to in every state in the united states we've seen a very sharp increase in the number of. people seeking treatment for addiction to prescription opioids and invited america under the banner of medicine he persisted with the pain but instead of trying to wean him off though she just goes after dose after dose after dose and really became his drug dealer so who is to blame patients don't as manufacturers or the government.

imax stars are this is the kaiser at 40 remember monopoly it's great to have a telethon boardwalk and park place. well we're entering answer big monopoly hey max something that we predicted quite a few years ago is once again coming true and that is that you know as the city they strap happened and as china continues to rise in power that what happens with empires is they tend to influence the behavior of many other countries around the world and we're seeing similar story happening today i believe this is my theory about what's happening in the united states and that's essentially you know we don't have ghost cities like they do in china but we have ghost homes and that is because of a similar situation of too much credit not a great you know environment for investment opportunities for.