e.u. officials think to reassure the astra zeneca covert shot is safe stressing their vaccine has a tendency is costing lives but there are signs that the damage to the public trust is already done. what you need is a ghost since it has been shown that there are people who have unfortunately died after getting vaccinated saying the risk is low it's in their best interest i think we don't know where to trust part you will be too dark. please fans torched and water cannon fire riots are about to cross northern ireland or the post breaks it trade barriers. the former u.s. intelligence analyst faces years in jail for exposing america's drone assassination program we speak to a whistleblower who was 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 shapes the week where we start in europe where governments are split on restricting the use of the astra zeneca covert job on thursday the european commission warns that without a unified response public confidence in occupations could falter we call it reaction in italy and france. i mean. there are other vaccines so i cannot see the reason to focus only on astra zeneca if it has problems there are very rare but there are problems it would you know for certain

age groups should be restricted i personally wouldn't take it i understand that it can be an advantage for the community but if something goes wrong you could get from basis and then the personal advantage vanishes. for me there is a risk since it has been shown there are people who have unfortunately died after getting vaccinated at a point to do something the risk is low in their best interest i think so they are never going to say that the risk is high and so that's what that doesn't surprise me there is a bit of confusion we don't know what to trust so i feel a bit of the dark concerns over a potential link between astra zeneca and red blood clots is exposing the latest divisions within the e.u. after the book's agency that evaluates in supervises medicinal products that may once again said the benefits of the vaccine weigh the risks but saying that blood clots should be listed as a rare so i defect not although we're convinced and measures have been taken it's

really in spain of joined ranks with germany deciding to limit the job to those who are over the age of 60 belgium has followed suit with france now only recommending astra zeneca for those over $55.00 but those differences are causing a headache for brussels it's worried that without a common policy towards astra zeneca trust in vaccinations could be eroded commissioner as a member states to ask experts to work with him up to the coherent approach across the region through their guidance and analysis of these extremely important we want to avoid of course a vaccination however it may be that. this ship has already sailed here in front there have been reports of people not turning up with a coup the vaccination if it's astra zeneca and confusion over who should and who

shouldn't have it is why there is also a question to be a last about why certain countries are making unilateral decisions against deep voice of the may yet certain that may be simple the head of germany's vaccine commission said the a.m.a. evaluates vaccines based on what's of benefit to all in the e.u. individual countries though can be more picky in germany we have a slightly different situation because we're not so dependent on the astra zeneca vaccine and we can postpone vaccines and thereby achieve the same effect but in the end we still have the risk of these serious side effects in a certain age group over in the u.k. new restrictions on astra zeneca are even tighter than those that have been taken by the european neighbors the previously the u.k. dismissed questions raised about the jab now government committee is recommending that healthy people under 30 are provided with

a different fact seen adults who are age 18 to 29 years old should be offered an alternative covert night in fact seen in preference to the astra zeneca vaccine regulators are now would voicing that astra zeneca provide another update on possible side effects and while for some the idea that they have a toy any chance of developing a fatal blood clot may be too much others say that they will gladly take the risk in a bid to put an end to the code nightmare jollity risky r.t. paris summary now is set to become the 1st nation in western europe to use sputnik v. as its primary covert vaccine the microstate which is it within italy has just received another $37000.00 doses of the russian job as senior official told us why they turned to moscow. i. guess we thought of the orders fred

but we face a delayed to supply of the 1st doses of the pfizer vaccine which were covered by protocol agreements but when. the pen demick forced us to session or other solutions on the market through cooperation with the russian direct investment fund we managed to patch a new doses of this politically vaccines and start our vaccination campaign was vexed nations are now primarily being carried out with sputnik the. we had an opportunity to receive scientific proof that this is a good and reliable vaccine and this is also confirmed by our own internal research of antibodies which measures the safety and efficiency of this year to date we have had absolutely no problems so minor reactions we have detected comply with standard reactions to unionization which include low crate fever chills and so on right now we have no problems with the summary no hopes to complete its vaccination campaign by may the enclaves home to around 34000 people and most adults are lined up for

the job ministers told us that they've been working well with russia. we are definitely happy with the vaccine and are surprised at how good our cooperation with the russian fund has been we saw the professionalism of the fun's workers and their willingness to help as well as quick supplies of the jobs it has been a very good experience of cooperation and i hope we will do it again in the course of future vaccination campaigns. of course afford to give coronavirus has some particularities because we're a small states with limited resources our health system has limited capabilities to confront the situation caused by covert this is why it's crucial for us to immunize our population as soon as possible when we saw there are existing vaccines on the european market is limited which complicated the start of our vaccination campaign we decided to contact the russian direct investment fund regarding sputnik the.

european medicines agency is still considering whether to approve sputnik v a process that's been going on for months a former italian m.p. told us the regulator must act faster. being that europe is the way. to. give india out through asia. all those would mean when you were under political point of view with these issues related to you and then the commercial point of view i'd refer to being that it is not so important because or even. if you were a commercial reason it would be in all of that it is a very bad i call that a we were screwed up but in case they do not i think that any way our government other governments should go along and choose what they want. well then i learned has been gripped by rioting throughout the week please find water cannon for the 1st time in 6 years as pro u.k.

loyalists and irish nationalists faced off the disturbances come amid a wave of anger at the post breaks it trade barriers this was the scene in belfast on friday night protestors tossed a trash can and a car and held rocks and petrol bombs at police northern ireland's 1st minister arlene foster has urged both sides to show restraint and the british prime minister has 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 is through dialogue not violence or criminality meanwhile northern ireland's justice minister has blamed the u.k. government for the flare up i am a long accused the conservatives of dishonesty over the way breaks 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 spoke with jonathan tonge professor of british and irish politics he thinks the government's made a series of false promises to the people of northern ireland. well 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 totally democratic party the largest party in northern ireland told look how the party conference 3 years ago that it would be untold for any british government to preside over a border in the irish state forest johnson with the talking is precisely treason make the signing of such a deal within a year for his johnson does not and since then he spends a lot of time pretending that there is a border between great britain and northern ireland so you just said morris and go on through the terrible sense no betrayal over what the prime minister has done

think that boris johnson needs to go to northern i'll explain what he's done in terms of the protocol and try and also meet with the you leaders to instigate some of the worst effects the protocol and diminish the number of checks go on to great britain and northern ireland otherwise we were looking at a grim some of the tension of violence in northern ireland. a former u.s. intelligence analyst faces up to 10 years in prison for blowing the whistle on washington's targeted drone assassination program that all hail pleaded guilty to transmitting and retaining national defense information its 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 held gave to the online news site the intercepts back in 2014 was made available to the public and he's now accused of disclosing classified intelligence information is the porters say these kinds of exposures are essential to using the espionage act in this way to prosecute journalists sources as spies chills 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 a vital public importance and the c.v.t. related to their disclosure is protected by the 1st amendment. hale was arrested 2 years ago and charged with violating the espionage act and out there related offenses president biden has imposed temporary restrictions on drone strikes outside most countries but there are opposed to boost exports of unmanned weapons to countries including those with poor human rights records john kerry aka again say however justified whistleblowers exposure of drone strikes are they have next to no chance of proving that to u.s. authorities 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 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 his son 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. last week here up for monday's historic anniversary of the 1st human obit on the planet to continue special coverage for you later in the program veteran space travelers tell us how hollywood gets space movies wrong they stay with us. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy to. let it be an arms race on. dramatic development only mostly exists i don't see how that strategy will be successful very. few sit.

welcome back 1st they came for the gas guzzlers them plastic straws and cutlery now they're literally coming for children's dreams of a french 30 or 40 years warns quote kids shouldn't even dream of flying and she

scrapped funding for the aviation club artie's polly boyko through on a bomber jacket hit the runway and got reaction to the grounding from a flight instructor. camargue show you are willing to sacrifice to save the world air travel is a major contributor to climate change question somebody told us to give it up and now i agree with mary in france and still kids to flog about flying. their young environmentalist mare over the french city of what is here a one. has said that kids should give up their dream of flying

in france of all places the. us the birthplace of the creator of the little prince and twangers son to exude their leave and one called louis 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. to find out what he thinks about the idea of stuffing flying in this french madness french politician has said children shouldn't even dream of flying what do you think about that as a as an idea boom but some point in the future it might be one of but for the

pacific future it's just people and i have to say without is everybody knows we still can come to a film from a pollution point of view and then 25 in one hour in russia has more pollution than the whole of the g.i. flick small aircraft so the m 25 being the big ring road because it was the case where you have international viewers to be green right over to the london so that's more pollution in one hour than what we have in g.r. i cared for you ok here you be a general idea generally easier with a graph the print on this isn't as large as it would be going to be listed in the lines of wow that's a big claim a day yes a big claim for what you say isn't young people who just say you're just an old man that loves flying and is obsessed with his own pastime and isn't thinking about requirement emergence a. but but if you're thinking about planning

a club emergency if there were things of more important news of law but more debugging something nice to be done for my grandchildren or great but generally ocean. is just a pimple on the pigs but solid. buzzing what really struck a nerve with the liberty loving friends was this idea that kids can even dream of flying anymore luckily for now all kids dream is being policed just yet and for the others i must still wishing to take the saw is well played. manufacturers both big and small taking on creating new are known polluting models. this week the international space station has welcomed a new 3 man crew 2 russians and one from the u.s.

the launch came ahead of tomorrow's anniversary of the 1st human spaceflight. the rocket took off from the same side from where the soviet cosmonaut yuri gagarin made history on the morning of the 12th of april 961 his vostok one craft took off circling the earth for 108 minutes the flight brought garren instant global say we sent our global correspondents to ask people whether he's famous smile is still recognizable 60 years on. the condition good for you to get good if you're going to come up before the gulf

but know that in your youth. and i think here you could go right and recognising me and i wish i knew armstrong i'm sorry i don't know what. face recognition skills in the world actually your car is now if you. had a better solution. and he's promised to produce the piece of bread so you do good god it was true but only to speak with jesus is coming again and the judgment to be a judgment is fairly good i mean you'll be getting. a few. stumbling stone out of it all else equal to the last you know what i'm going to think you know i don't know if you already got ready for this when i did it last time how dare you bet i'm going to start to feel what if

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or am kidding me or do you want to go to any. kind of hole in a little bit of the kitchen i don't have the enough to d. id. not. care for and that's something. made with the mutual love that i was there with. every day the time we join up for it i'm not there yet. invented in felony. and united way too. good to be merkel one i. got from my dog who are born as a leader you have to be here during the. thing

that. live russian guy the 1st guy and. something right. jagger is really like it out there he was in that movie with my chevy chase down at words like that in the eighty's. miracle in mystique. mystery. and let. me take you to remember and. see you we go you. sporting the. quiz to interstellar veterans on what's changed since kagan achieve the impossible many moons ago. ok what does the typical day of the cosmonauts preparing for flights look like the 1st one for example what is the cause and we have every day there is

a person responsible for it who monitors whether you pass an exam when each subject and go through all the necessary training the shuttle is very diverse you could be sitting in a classroom diving underwater skydiving or studying computer techniques that variety makes the difficult training that a cosmonaut goes through exciting we have to be multiskilled specialists and know how to do everything yet when you are in your course of a couple of i get it it sounds like spaceflight preparations are now piece of cake but for lazy people chinup you can go into space without such conflicts training it's easy you just need to be an actor the space race has continued in an expected ways nasa has said it's planning to make the 1st ever movie filmed in space and at the same moment cost was decided russia needs to make such a movie to do. it but which of course they won't get the same level of training as the professional cosmonauts what they need is to be able to help themselves with food drinks hygiene and so on and not to get in the way if there are incidents

that's the level of training they will be to have and it takes around 6 months and with the thought that we're talking about space move this and those afula fantasy what's your forecast for the technological development for let's say the next decade will we see some fantasy become reality i think in the near future and you said 10 years i think we will have people not just visiting the moon briefly as happened you know 55 years ago but but actually starting to stay on the moon the moon is only 3 days away billions of leaders of water frozen on the moon and if you have power and you have water and you just need a good habitat and you can live there right now that's the kind of the i assess is an international project but at the end of the day you do work for different countries and have different plans in the space it's all the situations when you. example come to dinner and say guys you won't believe what a discovery i've made and then you can add in coal excess don't tell them what's wrong with you or do you share your research that entire time we're working

together and we're inventing a flood and we're we're figuring out how it's all going to work and and obviously getting to know each other it's important to socialize together but it's not competitive it's. international space station 15 different countries and it's different them some of the historical embassies that we kind of cultivate here on earth so i gave with 6 a day i know all of you have walked in space how does it feel to be on the brink of infinity isn't that terrifying if the nice the national it's not terrifying just terrifying the interesting is dangerous and hard work but it's fascinating you see your home in space from the outside and you see the whole planet and it's amazing to go out in your space suit as naturally as if you're stepping out onto the street and i don't know why the movies always make spaceflight look so sad you know all call 011 movie or whatever that one was with brad pitt everyone looks so sad

spaceflight is joyous and magnificent like you can see in these videos that you're running and and the reality of it is it's an immensely human and shared experience as we're starting to leave our. many thanks for joining us here on r.t. international this sunday we'll be back in 30 minutes.