he did it because he was exposing a war crime he's not allowed to say that he really doesn't have any chance of acquittal. welcome to the week. of the week. a very warm welcome to. the program in europe. the european commission of war. i mean you want to be 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

with it off a 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 thrombosis and then the personal advantage vanishes. for me there is a risk since it has been shown that there are people who have unfortunately died after getting vaccinated at a point of use of saying 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 right 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 and 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 diffract not although we're convinced it 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 member states to ask experts to work with him up to the hokie coherent approach across the region through their guidance and analysis of the trustees to extremely important we want to avoid of course a vaccination as however it may be that. this ship has already sailed here in france 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 right there is also a question to be a last about why certain countries are making unilateral decisions against deep voice of the may you know what 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. a new restrictions on astra zeneca or even tighter than those that have been taken by the european neighbors that previously the u.k. dismissed questions raised about the jab now the government committee is recommending that healthy people under 30 are provided with

a different fact seen adults who are 18 to 29 years old should be offered an alternative that night in fact seen in preference to the astra zeneca vaccine regulators are now would voicing that astra zeneca provides 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 current nightmare so all of the will be out see paris in the meantime reno is set to become the 1st nation in western europe to use a sputnik v. as its primary covert vaccine for the micro state which is with an athlete has just received another 37000 doses of the russian job and one senior official told us why they turn to moscow. ok we got our daughters fed up 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 pare new doses of this politically vaccines and start our vaccination campaign with vaccinations are now primarily being carried out with sputnik. 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 up to date we have had absolutely no problems some minor reactions we have detected comply with standard reactions to unionize ation which include low grade fever chills and so on right now we have no problems with the. hope to complete its vaccination campaign by the end of may of the enclaves home to around $34000.00 people and most adults

as we understand are lining up for the job a minister say the cooperation with russia has been good. we are definitely happy with the vaccine and are surprised at how good our cooperation with the russian fund has been 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 our flight to gives 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 this is where it's crucial for us to immunize our population as soon as possible when we thought 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. the

european medicines agency is still considering whether to approve or sputnik the process has been ongoing for months one former italian m.p. told us the regulator must act faster. i think that europe is the laying tool matcher to give india out through asia and. the utilization all those would mean can you in a political point of view of jesus to be their duty and then that commercial point of view i'd refer to it 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 week i hope that a we'll a speed up but in case they do not i think that any way our government as other governments should go along and choose what they want. northern ireland has been gripped by rioting throughout the week and police fired 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 over a post trade barriers right here this is the scene in belfast on friday night protesters torched a trash can a car they hold the ropes and petrol bombs and police and all that island's 1st minister ali in foster has urged both sides to show restraint and the british prime minister has expressed his alarm and his call 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 in business 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 actually blamed the u.k. government for the flare up naomi long accused the conservatives over dishonesty over the way bricks it would affect the irish border saying they had 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. ultimately aimed at ensuring an open border well jonathan tong a professor of british and irish politics things the government made a series of false promises to the people of northern ireland. well i think the british government bonds johnson and indeed think you have to bear a considerable amount of responsibility it was far johnson to do went over to belfast and totally democratic party the largest party in northern ireland to let the tea party come from 3 years ago that it would be intolerable for any british government to preside over the border in the r.v. state forest johnson says hockey's previously trees i'm a society gets to deal with it a year for his johnson done that and since then he spends a lot of time to tending that the reason the border between great britain and northern ireland so you just said more the singalong feel 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 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 on what's good between great britain and northern ireland otherwise we were looking at a grim some of 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 drone assassination program daniel hale pleaded guilty to transmitting national defense information his case comes amid mass disclosures of similar crimes allegedly perpetrated by the united states.

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 has a gay for the online news site the into separate back and 2014 well it was made publicly available but now that he is accused of disclosing classified intelligence information his supporters say these kinds of exposures are essential. using the espionage act in this way to prosecute journalists sources and 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 that related to their disclosure is protected by the 1st amendment haleigh was arrested 2 years ago and charged with violating the espionage act and other related offenses president biden though has imposed a temporary restrictions on drone strikes in most countries but there are reports he aims to boost exports of manned weapons to countries including those with poor human rights records john kiriakou again says however justified whistleblowers exposure of drone strikes may seem to be they have next to no chance of proving that to us the 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 julius signage 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 by this is auti international we are continuing our special coverage ahead of monday's historic out of a story of the 1st manned space flight just a little bit later in the program a veteran of space travel to share just the workout you need to be fit for lift off that and much more in just a moment. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. spearing dramatic development only personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. the world is driven by

a dream shaped by. the day or thinks. we fear to ask. you with us today the mayor of the french quarter has been accused of stealing children by telling them to drop any ambitions of flying she's also scrapped

funding for the aviation clubs. through on how bomber jacket she hit the runway got reaction to the grounding from a flight instructor. how mark show you are willing to sacrifice to save the world air travel is a major contributor to climate change that's a fun but told us to give it up and now our green mare in france has told kids to forget 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 hopi were mad last the birthplace of the creator of the little prince i'm trying to son to visit that leave leone 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. this french politician has said children shouldn't even dream of fly. what do you think about that as

a as an idea but some point in the future it might be one of but for the pacific future it's just people. without is everybody knows you still can come to the form for. pollution point of view the m 25 in one hour in russia has more pollution than the whole of the g.i. fleet smaller so the m 25 being the big ring road because i was thinking for you have international viewers to be green right out of every ounce of the london so that's more pollution in one hour what we have in g.r. i can feel you ok the a.b.a. general idea is generally easier with it off the printer and this isn't as large as it would be going to be listed no one is over wow that's a big claim a day yes a big claim for what you say is now young people who just say you're just an old man that loves flying and is obsessed with you know his own pastime and isn't thinking about requirement emergence a would that be right. but but if you're thinking about climbing you call the

emergency if you want things are more important than this i'm not look i'm not debugging 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 sky is well play manufacturers both big and small are working on creating new nonpolluting models. this week the international space station welcome to a new 3 man crew to russians one american of the launch came ahead of tomorrow's

anniversary of the 1st manned space flight. the rocket launch from the very same site from where soviet cosmonaut yuri gagarin made history it was the morning of the 12 april 1961 his vostok one croft took off circling the earth for 108 minutes the flight brought the car in an instant global fame so we sent our correspondents around the world to ask people if they can identify the space pioneer 60 years on. if. you're going to get in the front of the company.

and i think here you could go right recognizing me and i wish i knew armstrong story i don't know what. face recognition skills in the world actually your car is now if you. had a bit arsonist. and he's promised to produce the piece. so you'd be good god it was true but only to speak with jesus is coming again and judgement to be a judgment is fairly good i mean you're getting. a few. stumbling stone out of it all i see for the last you know what i'm going to get you i don't know if you'll be got ready for this trip i did last time i was by your bedroom he thought it was well what if what i

did. wally. his name is you. say how do you know. it would be a good writer so not that we'll see a picture of him a cube or gravity and i would do no good to him before. became very all. be present and she had put it on me and got him a lot of the shuttle spun off of the. now. to see utica getting a lot of the so called out of all the on the touch of. a judge. not. getting.

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i think that. russian guy the 1st guy and be. something right. if you like an actor he was in that movie with like chevy chase down at royce like back in the eighty's. miracle in mystique. mystery. and let. me take you to the never and. here we go again. sporting the. awesome more or less good memories that this is our international i look learning to cope with 0 gravity takes intense preparation and one veteran russian cosmonaut has revealed the gruelling fitness regime for space travel. physical preparation is necessary for us to be able to

withstand everything before and during flight pressure and 0 gravity to do that our body needs to be prepared there are special physical exercises which ensure normal functioning of the muscular carry vascular and bell and systems all to feel well on the ground and in the air. this is an exercise to strengthen the blood vessels of the brain hatstand so you should do it for about 10 seconds before you get back on your feet beat the exercise 10 times put your hands on the floor lift your legs stand up and count to 1123 blood flows well to your hat creating pressure. other exercise for the brain vessels is the arm staff so you don't have to stand alone the most important thing is to put your feet in this position and then straighten up the exercise also needs to be repeated 10 times it's better to make it fast so the blood can quickly flow to the had and back vessels expand and contract rapidly the next exercise is to develop

your balance it's good for blood vessels as well that's basic forward rolls you have to repeat them several times be sure you get a little dizzy when you get up and listen to how you feel are you dizzy or not if you are repeated the same number of forward rolls and if not increase the number. well that's the program here at r.t. international do bear in mind the 60th anniversary of garlands flight continues today on some or all day monday as well hope you can stick around for all special coverage here on our city for the meantime though thanks for joining us. but i think. if you do. you wish both of those what do you. it hundreds. i chose

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