the week's top stories are marty e.u. officials seek to reassure that the astra zeneca covert shot is safe stressing that vaccine hesitancy is costing lives but there are signs that the damage to public trust is already done. police cars were torched bricks are thrown and dozens of police are injured as rioting sweeps northern ireland over post directed trade barriers. and a former u.s. 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.

good to have you with us this weekend time call him bright sunday on r.t. that means we're taking you through some of the biggest stories we've covered here over the past 7 days 1st a rough week for one of the covert vaccines the european medicines agency is standing by britain's astra zeneca jab saying the benefits outweighed the risks while noting that blood clots should be listed as rare side effects the regulators 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. authorities say the people under the age of 30 will be offered alternatives to the astra zeneca jab due to the possible risks 80 people in the country have suffered incident 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 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 important start 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. 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

polman your families or deep vein thrombosis and a defined age group gender or in any particular country unfortunately there was a link there now the astra zeneca job will have i've additional 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 aged 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 it. is available over a dozen countries only counting the european union have suspended vaccination with

the astra zeneca vaccine or vax servia complete 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 right to be afraid and that unfortunately has done irreparable damage to the vaccination drive worldwide vaccine

shortages across the e.q. of prompted several member states to question the blocks joint procurement scheme austria's one of them and chancellor sebastian curds has already negotiated a possible purchase of the russian sputnik the jap 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 the go see asians to buy the sputnik the shoulder from russia however the european medicines agencies did it over the decision and is yet to grant approval for the job for european commission president says that if split think he gets the green light the e.u. should include it in its procurement program the council thinks europe's 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 vaccine 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 the problem we have we don't have enough back scenes and if you see what you would see 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 scrutiny expect scene which has excellent data out there as has pfizer and as has modern so we should have known that much earlier in order to be able to provide our. nationals with adequate vaccine to such as it and now we are paying for those political shortcomings with human lives. and all that island's been gripped by rioting throughout the wake of

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 post bricks and trade barriers this was the scene in belfast on friday night protesters torched a trash can in the car and held rocks and petrol bombs at police overnight and 1st minister ali foster surged 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 way to resolve differences is through dialogue not violence or criminality. meanwhile northern ireland's justice ministers blamed the u.k. government for the flare up now in the long accuse the conservatives of dishonesty over the way bracks 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 jonathan tom who's a professor of british and irish politics thinks the government made a series of false promises to the people of northern ireland. the british government and vice johnson in particular after a considerable amount of responsibility it was boris johnson who went over to belfast it's only democratic union 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 a border in the irish sea johnson says hacking is predisposed to treason may signing a deal with a year for his johnson done that and since then he spends a lot of time pretending that there is one between great britain and northern ireland so you just have more of the simple life you know the terrible sense of betrayal over what the prime minister was don't think that boris johnson needs to go to northern ireland explain what he's done in terms of of the protocol and try

and also meet with the you leaders to mitigate some of the worst effects the protocol and diminish the number of checks get on puts go between great britain and northern ireland otherwise we're looking at a grim summer potentially 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 drone assassination program daniel hale pleaded guilty to transmitting 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 all data which the hail gave to the online news site the intercept back in 2014 was made available to the public he's now accused of disclosing classified intelligence information his supporters say these kind of exposure is a resend chill. 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 they related to their disclosure is protected by the 1st amendment well i was arrested 2 years ago and charged with violating the espionage act and also other related offenses president biden to impose temporary restrictions on drone strikes in most countries but there are reports he aims to boost exports of unmanned weapons to countries including those with poor human rights records when john kiriakou again says however justified whistleblowers exposure of drone strikes they have next to no chance of proving that the us 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. developments this sunday that the government officials in iran are describing a blackout at a nuclear sites as an act of terrorism and not sons facility suffered an outage

earlier on sunday day off of the president unveiled a new set of advanced centrifuges for faster uranium enrichment the israeli media are now saying that the incident was caused by a cyber attack by their intelligence agency mossad that's based on western intelligence sources. to retaliate against the perpetrators but so far it's held back from apportioning any plane for that incident which does threaten to overshadow the ongoing talks between iran and powers on trying to revive the 2015 it nuclear deal will keep you posted on what happens there. on the way we're going to be continuing our special coverage ahead of monday's historic anniversary of the 1st of manned spaceflight in a. few minutes veteran space travelers tell us what hollywood gets wrong about space in its movies you're watching our say.

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hello again more of all stories from the wake of america french city is told children that to give up their dreams of flying and scraps for an aviation club. at the runway and the reaction to the grounding from a flight instruction. how much are you willing to sacrifice to save the world and travel is a major contributor to climate change it's

a fun book and told us to give it up i now agree maryn france let's talk kids to fly jets about flying. their young environmentalist matter 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 only way that bus the birthplace of the creator of the little prince i'm trying to sign things you can't leave leo and all in one called noise 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. 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 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 a form for. pollution point of view the m 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 to keep we have international viewers to be green right out of air out of the london so that's more pollution in one hour than what we have in g.r. i cared for you ok ga be your new idea is generally easier with general footprint

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 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 would that be right. but but if you're thinking about climbing climbing emergency if there were things are more important in this i'm not a look i'm not debugging something nice to be done for my grandchildren or 3 great but generally the 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 plane manufacturers both big and small are working on creating new nonpolluting models. heading even the higher this week the international space station welcome to a new 3 man crew the launch go ahead of tomorrow's anniversary of the 1st manned space flight. although it launched from the exact same site where soviet cosmonaut yuri gagarin made history on the morning of the 12th of april 1961 his one craft took off circling the earth for 108 minutes the flight crew got an instant global fame and

we sent our correspondents on 3 continents to ask people to identify the space pioneer 60 years on. live and produced. in your garden the dolphin confident that in your new. 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 skills in the world actually your car is now if you. had a better solution. and he's promised to produce the piece. so you do good god i'm going to put it up to speed that jesus is coming again and the judgment to be

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humans have had a constant presence in orbit traveling at 27000 kilometers per hour on the international space station braving radiation and also some high velocity space junk such as that astronauts and cosmonauts including russia's only woman space pilot on the joys and challenges of life in 0 gravity. ok what does the typical day of the cosmonauts preparing for flights look like the 1st one for example with us that doesn't we have a shuttle for every day there is a person responsible for it who monitors whether you pass an exam on each subject and go through all the necessary training is very diverse you could be sitting in a classroom diving underwater skydiving or studying computer techniques that variety makes the difficult training that it calls more exciting we have to be multiskilled specialists and know how to do everything yet when you are in a car the part that off i get it it sounds like spaceflight preparations are now

piece of cake but for lazy people chin up 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 field in space and at the same moment ask cos most 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 i'm here talking about space movies and those are full of 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 difficulty i assess is an international project but at the end of the day you do work for different countries and have different plans in your space it's all the situations when you for. will 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 space flight 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 this 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 dave with 6

a day i know all of you have worked in space how does it feel to be on the brink of infinity isn't that terrifying if the nice that ashleigh it's not terrifying just terrifyingly interesting is dangerous and hard work but it's fascinating that 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 space flight look so sad you know all call oh $11.00 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 earth. ok with that big anniversary i'm going to spend some time on monday sharing with us space past present and future next that when i'm finishing look at the causes and victims of widespread poverty across

the united states. today the industry prefers to spend millions of euros in nothing to do daily conditions i will be sniffy all about making money making profits is some of the

corporations international markets import export do you imagine the number of chronic diseases that are in every family then it is not due to new viruses own new microbes that is not true so it is due to environment less will see the look on a ciggie though the momentum is simply the mayor of this sort of muscles of really just securely it could only come in to be seen in the police militia that though they love us declared the sky if the so food industry is successful it will create more jobs it will create more value added it will create more growth so i don't see why we shouldn't also fight for the interests of the industry not accept that we have regulation we want regulation i was an industry and if we don't behave zinnias finitude that's fine.