so join us for the day. or image of the shallows. e.u. officials seek to reassure that the astra zeneca kovac short is safe stressing the vaccine has a to see it's costing lives but there are signs that the damage to public trust is already done. police vans torched and water cannon fired riots erupted across northern ireland over post breaks it trade barriers. and the former us intelligence analyst faces years in jail for exposing america's drone assassination program we speak to a whistleblower who's in close contact with him. he did it because he was exposing a war crime he's not allowed to see that and so he really doesn't have any chance

of acquittal. very warm welcome you watching the weekly here on r.t. international bringing you all the latest headlines along with a roundup of the stories that shaped the week. the european medicines agency is standing by in britain's astra zeneca job saying 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 the more than 30000000 who've been inoculated across europe over in the u.k. or 30 say that people under the age of 30 will be offered alternatives to the astra zeneca job due to the possible blood clots 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 for garcia reports. 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 after they make a vaccine earth portrait 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 start both vaccinated people and healthcare professionals are aware of the signs and symptoms of these unusual blood clotting disorder 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. 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 family's or deep vein thrombosis and a defined age group gender batch or in any particular country unfortunately there was a link there 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 that serbia please their marketing department though i doubt that a simple rebranding is going to cleanse their reputation i would definitely say it's 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 suspicion 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 right to be afraid and that unfortunately has done irreparable damage to the vaccination drive worldwide vaccine shortages across the e.u. have prompted several member states to question the block's joint procurement scheme all straight is one of them and chanceless about. what he negotiated a possible purchase if the russian sputnik. 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. germany's health minister says his country is also in negotiations to buy the shot from russia however the european medicines agency have did the over the decision and are yet to grant approval for the job for me your opinion commission president john called young as if sputnik

the gets the green light the e.u. should include it in his procurement program accounts a surge and things europe has allowed politics to get in the way of saving lives. we need the vaccines and the problem is it was a political initially we many people in europe didn't except the russian vaccine and sputnik is a good backseat and yet they were coming out and saying well this is not what we want let's look at the european at alternatives 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 if you see what she right now is that we're going back and asking russia for sport next we should have done that much much earlier we need all the players all the players on the table and that includes the sputnik 16 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 those ages and now we are paying for those political shortcomings with human lives. northern ireland has been gripped by rioting throughout the week police fired water cannon for the 1st time in 6 years as procure k. loyalists and irish nationalists faced off the disturbances come amid a wave of anger at the post brags that trade barriers this that was the scene in belfast on friday night protesters torched a trash can and a car and held rocks and petrol bombs at police northern ireland's 1st minister ali and foster has urged both sides to show restraint and the british prime minister has expressed his alarm that's quarter guy along. 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 way to resolve differences is through dialogue not violence or criminality meanwhile northern ireland's justice minister has blamed the u.k. government for the. lare up naomi long accused the conservatives of dishonesty over the way briggs it would affect the irish border saying they had promised unfettered access while failing to work through the legal consequences she also slams the british government's decision to suspend the northern ireland protocol which was part of the u.k.'s withdrawal agreements with the e.u. aimed at ensuring an open border where earlier i spoke with jonathan tadhg professor of british and irish politics he thinks the government made a series of false promises to the people of northern ireland for the british government bonds johnson in particular have to bear a considerable amount of responsibility it was part of johnson who went over to belfast and told the democratic party the largest party in northern ireland told the public party conference 3 years ago that it would be untold for any british

government to preside over the border in the irish sea forest johnson is talking is precisely treason make the signing of such a deal with a year for a strong. and since then we've spent a lot of time pretending that the reason the border between britain and northern ireland so you disagree with a single line through the terrible sense of betrayal over what the prime minister is don't think that boris johnson needs to go to northern i'll explain what he's done in terms of of the protocol i'm trying also meet with the you leaders to instigate some of the worst effects of protocol and diminish the number of checks to go between great britain and northern ireland a wise we were looking at a grim summer potentially of violence in northern ireland. a former us intelligence analyst faces up to 10 years in prison for blowing the whistle on washington's targeted drone assassination program daniel hale pleaded guilty to transmitting and retaining national defense information his case comes amid mass

disclosure of similar crimes allegedly perpetrated by the us. i have to tell you when he called me a few hours ago he was surprisingly upbeat and optimistic and he he remarked about how much press this issue has been getting since he decided to plead guilty so in the end i think that he thinks that this is been worth it that

americans know more about the drone program now than 8 they did 6 months ago or a year ago and even though he's likely going to go to prison it was worth it the u.s. is flying these drones or at least it was until recently that were used ostensibly to kill terrorists or would be terrorists but in reality to kill anybody who might resemble a terrorist and that included women children the elderly and anybody else who happened to be on the ground i believe that we're we're a nation of laws and we have to abide by those laws whether we like them or not if we don't like them we should change them go through the process and change them if congress has not declared war on a country we don't have a right to attack it we just can't decide that we don't like the politics of whoever happens to be in charge in a place like yemen or pakistan or afghanistan and then launch drone strikes against

them it's a violation of international law. data which hale gave to the on line news site the intercept back in 2014 was made available to the public and he is now accused of disclosing classified intelligence information his supporters say these kinds of exposures are essential to using the espionage act in this way to prosecute journalists sources as spies childes newsgathering and discourages sources from coming forward with information in the public interest particularly when it relates to national security where government secrecy is at its height these documents detail the secret unaccountable process for targeting and killing people around the world including u.s. citizens through drone strikes there are vital public importance and the related to their disclosure is protected by the 1st amendment hale was arrested 2 years ago and charged with violating the espionage act and other related offenses president biden has imposed temporary restrictions on drone strikes outside most countries

but there are reports he aims to boost exports of unmanned weapons to countries including those with poor human rights records john kiriakou again say is that however justified it will blow is exposure of drone strikes they have next to no chance of proving that to us operating base. this is really the worst part of the of the espionage act this is the reason why ed snowden can't come home this is the reason why i couldn't go to trial this is the reason why jeffrey sterling the other cia whistleblower was convicted because there is no affirmative defense we are prohibited by law from going into court and saying i did it but i did it for this reason and in in the case of daniel hale this was a war crime he did it because he was exposing a war crime he's not allowed to say that and so he really doesn't have any chance of acquittal the best thing to do for daniel as it was for me as it was for so many

others here charged under the espionage act is to take a deal and to hope for the lightest possible sentence the decision that was made early on even before joe biden was inaugurated to pursue the appeal against julian assange it was that decision that made it clear that joe biden was going to pursue national security leaks just like barack obama did and just like donald trump did after him. twitter has moved to correct reality once again this time the platform has targeted a once classified video showing alleged u.s. war crimes the account of a naughty america correspondent with us spend it off the posting the footage with twitter agreeing to lift the ban only off to rachel blevins deleted the post but blevins told us the real issues that those responsible have still not been held to account. they said that they were doing this because i violated their graphic content policy essentially because in that video you were watching civilians and

journalists lose their lives and the context they gave behind that is to say that for the families of those victims that would be hard to watch that would be hard for that footage to be out there and to that extent they're correct about that i mean this is disturbing footage and yet at the same time it's also even more disturbing for those families to know that even though that footage has been out there the attackers the murderers who are responsible still have not been brought to justice or 1st respond wiki leaks in 2010 the ones classified pentagon footage appears to show the indiscriminate shooting of more than a dozen civilians in a suburb from an american helicopter among those killed were 2 employees of the reuters news agency we can leak said it obtains the video from a number of whistleblowers over the years the video that twitter claims breaks its rules has been posted by many of the uses but it's her post as an r t journalists that triggered the system but it's blevins insists that the little

graphic of the footage still needs to be brought to the public's attention. here in the united states are major media organizations like say c.n.n. or fox news they don't show you footage like that they don't show you how her if it is a when the u.s. military commits these terrible war crimes in other countries they don't tell you what is actually going on with this so-called war on terrorism and yet it's people like us on to have taken this step but that information out there to bring the actual footage to light to show the public is public and now at the same time you see the u.s. government going through from obama to now by even attacking a saw and going after him trying to get his head on a platter moralize i think that what we're seeing is. increasing moves on the part of these digital corporations and we know nothing about them they're completely opaque they know everything about us as forms of censorship for the ruling elite in

particular the establishment elites in the republican in the democratic party who are blocking their critics on the left or the right you have to remember that during the obama administration and barack obama's vice president was of course joe biden expanded the targeted assassinations through militarized drone drones and there's complete continuity between republican and democratic administrations on this issue which is why the biden ministration has supported the appeal in london to get julian a songe extradited to the united states as we care for monday's historic anniversary of the fast human space odyssey continues its special coverage later in the program russia's 1st woman on the international space station tells us that about language problems on their return to stay with us.

in the event misguided believe by many of that by locking down the whole society you can somehow protect all high risk people but we're seeing now is sort of on view is that that wasn't the case it did not protect. the high risk pool of people victorious in the u.s. we are. now over half a 1000000 deaths most little people there was a complete failure just saying these last dance would actually pertain to all the high risk people. 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 spearing dramatic development only

personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. welcome back the 1st they came for the gas guzzlers then plastic straws and cutlery now they're literally coming for a children's story of the french city of prophecy as well and quote kids shouldn't even dream of filling the scrapped funding for the aviation club. if they want a bomber jackets hit the runway and got reaction to the grounding from a flight instructor.

how macho you are willing to sacrifice to save the world as travel is a major contributor to climate change somebody told us to give it up and now a green mer in france and still kids to fly about flying. their young environmentalist mare of the french city of what ca one. has said that kids should give up their dream of flying in france of all places the boss the birthplace of the creator of the little prince i'm trying to son to visit that leave leo and all alone cournoyer who is 31 years old has said and i quote we must protect the children from some dreams sadly aviation must no longer be part of the dreams of the children of today and then she went and slashed government

funding through the local flight clubs in her area because in her opinion government money shouldn't be spent on a sport that has a carbon footprint so i'm off to meet a flight instructor and examiner edgy la to find out what he thinks about the idea of stopping flying this french madness french politician has said children shouldn't even dream of. what do you think about that as an idea. but some point in the future it might be relevant but for the pacific future it's just people. without god because everybody knows you still come short form to. pollution point of view and then $25.00 in one hour in russia has more pollution than the whole of the g.i. flick. so the m $25.00 being the big ring roads there is the key for you have international viewers to be green right over there as to the london so that's more

pollution in one hour what we have in g.r. i carry it for you ok ga beer general idea is generally easier with a graph footprint and this isn't as large as it would be going to be listed not the ones i thought wow that's a big claim a big yes a big claim for what you say isn't have young people who just say you're just an old boomer that loves flying and is obsessed with you know his own past time and isn't thinking about requirement emergence a will that be wrong. but but if you're thinking about climate if you call the emergency if there were things of more important news of law look more debug something nice to be done for my grandchildren or great but generally ocean. is just a pimple on the pigs but saw it. by

saying what really struck a nerve with the liberty loving french was this idea that kids can even dream of flying anymore luckily from now on kids dreams are being policed just yet and for those of us still wishing to take to the skies well play manufacturers both big and small are working on creating new nonpolluting models. but this week the international space station now is welcome to a new 3 man crew 2 russians on one from the u.s. the launch came head of tomorrow's anniversary of the 1st human space flight. the rockets a car from the same style of thought being cosmonaut yuri gagarin made history on

the morning of the 12th of april 961 his vostok one crossed the blasted into orbit circling the earth for 108 minutes the flight broke a gar an instant global fame well we sent dog global correspondents to find out if the memory is still alive. you can use to pay you to get that in your garden at the bottom of the gulf but no god in yours. and i think here you could go right recognizing me and i wish i knew armstrong i'm sorry i don't know what. face recognition this feels in the world actually hearing a car is now. that i have it i'm supposed to.

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and let. me take you to remember and. you will be. sporting the. elaina's to rose i was the 1st russian female to fly to the international space station she told us multinational space travelers have had to create their own language to make themselves understood. let's let the other guys must of what we 1st join the course may not t.m.s. candidates and then go through preparations which take your own 2 years during this time we study space craft and space station systems we also prepare for some experiments which are carried out in the international space station so we study biotechnology astrophysics astronomy we study the stars that's part of the compulsory program physical exercises are also added a lot of time is dedicated to that and of course medicine it's very important for

the cosmonaut to stay healthy throughout their preparatory stage so that they can get through it there is also a special training including parachute jumping and learning to react fast and make proper decisions at extreme situations with a time constraint. little book a small elf every cosmonaut is an engine near as well as a researcher i also had an additional function i was the crew's doctor our functions were interchangeable all of us did the routine tasks into and there was also plenty of research work for our crew carried out more than 60 experiments in areas including biotechnology astrophysics and chemistry our crew work together in harmony and we had no language problems as there are 2 international languages on the i assess russian in english and we communicated by mixing languages a board you could call it our brains are always trying to remember shorter words so

sometimes when i was back on earth i found myself remembering an english word but not the russian so we worked in unison everyone has their own mission but at the weekends we would get together we celebrated some holidays or just fridays watched movies listen to music talk to each other there was work and saturdays and sundays but not as intense as the weekdays sometimes we even saying to a guitar as there is one on the r.s.s. . but almost it's just i miss being in space the feeling of the space flight is very special just to give you an idea in the u.s. orbital segment there is a glass more chill as we make 16 fool orbits around the air each day we often fly over the night side and when you're in that more children you turn off the lights so you can feel you're flying over the earth and you do not feel like you're in the station and that's a great sensation like being in and it is.