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the week's top stories on r.t. vaccine hesitancy throws up a major obstacle for the e.u. is already stalling rolled out with regulators struggling to give its people that the astra zeneca covert shelter is safe. over our lives sees its worst rioting in decades with wyvil gangs hurling petrol bombs and torching police cars amid fury of opposed to trade barriers. and a former u.s. intelligence analyst faces and gears in prison for exposing america's drone warfare program we speak to a whistleblower who's in close contact with him. and 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.
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although from moscow it's the way to that means we're going to be taking you through some of the biggest stories and reaction that we've been covering here over the past 7 days and call him welcome to the program 1st the e.u. this week been struggling to revive public trust in the astra zeneca covert vaccine it's one of the 2 leading jobs being used across those 27 nations but after initially claiming the shot was entirely safe the european regulators now say severe blood clots should be listed as a rare side effect across in the u.k. the authorities there say that people under the age of 30 will be offered alternatives to the astra zeneca jab because of the possible complications 80 people of the country have suffered from blood clots after a dose 19 have died but britain's regulators taking the same line as the european medicines agency that the benefits vastly outweigh the risks when it does the ever polls. the takeaway the message that europe's health authorities want to leave you
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with is that it's still worth it the benefits outweigh the risks the benefits outweigh the risks i does become almost a slogan for the astra zeneca prove it 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 health care professionals are aware of the signs and symptoms of these unusual blood clotting to cylinders 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 and 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
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data more than 10000000 records has shown no evidence of an increased risk of palm in your families or deep vein thrombosis and a defined age group gender batch or in any particular country unfortunately there was a link and 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 sun. an alternative fact is available over
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a dozen countries only counting the european union have suspended vaccination with the astra zeneca vaccine or that servia 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 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
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has done irreparable damage to the vaccination drive worldwide on top of that vaccine shortages across the e.u. have prompted several member states to question the blocks joint procurement scheme australia is one of them and chancellor sebastian kurds has already negotiated a possible purchase of the russian sputnik the japs it would help us a lot because the vaccination process would be significantly accelerated i advocate that we do this we're 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. of the european medicines agency is still considering whether to approve the sputnik the shot a process that's been going on for several months cancer surgeon bob thinks that 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
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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 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 the 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 scrutiny expect scene which has excellent data out there as has pfizer and as has modern so we should have known it much earlier in order to be able to provide our nationals with adequate vaccine does it is it and now we are paying for those political shortcomings with human lives. will that audience been gripped by rioting throughout the wake police fired water
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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 directed trade barriers this was the scene in belfast on friday night protesters torched a trash can and a car and held rocks and petrol bombs the police northern ireland's 1st minister fosters urged both sides to show restraint and the british prime minister's expressed his alarm and cold 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 minister has blamed the u.k. government for the flare up niamey long they accuse the conservatives of dishonesty over the way breaks it would affect the irish border saying that they promised unfettered access while failing to work through the legal consequences she also
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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 professor of british and irish politics jonathan tong things the government made a series of false promises to the people of northern ireland. well the british government virus johnson and in particular have to a considerable amount of responsibility it was boris johnson who went over to belfast it's only 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 a border in the irish state forest johnson was attacking his previous us to treason make the signing of such a deal within a year for his johnson done that and since then he spent a lot of time pretending that the reason this border between great britain and northern ireland so you're just a loyalist symbol and feel a terrible sense of betrayal over what the prime minister has done i think that boris johnson needs to go to northern ireland explain what he's done in terms of of
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the protocol and try and also meet with the e.u. leaders to mitigate some of the worst effects the protocol and diminish the number of checks get on goods go between great britain and northern ireland otherwise we're looking at a grim summer potentially of violence in northern ireland. 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 united states.
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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
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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 day to which i gave to the online news site the intercept back in 2014 was made available to the public and he's now accused of disclosing classified intelligence information as a poll to say these kind 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
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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 i was arrested 2 years ago and charged with violating the espionage act and also other related offenses of president biden's imposed temporary restrictions on drone strikes in most countries but there are reports he aims to boost exports of amanda weapons to countries including those with poor human rights records john kiriakou again says however justified whistleblowers exposure of drone strikes that got next to no chance of proving that to the 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
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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. but events this sunday a blackout at an underground nuclear site in iran is being described as an act of terrorism by government officials and not on facility suffered an outage earlier on sunday a day off to the president unveiled
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a new set of advanced centrifuges for foster the iranian enrichment media in israel says the incident was caused by a cyber attack by the israeli intelligence agency mossad that's based on western intelligence sources to her on a filed to retaliate against the perpetrators but it's not assigned any blame as yet the incident though threatens to overshadow ongoing talks between iran and well powers on reviving the 2015 nuclear deal tougher on university political science professor how masai told me earlier that he thinks israel is the most likely culprit. iranian official so far have not formally accused anyone but i. i think it's very likely that the israelis are behind this and this is not surprising in the past 10 years every time you're on in the united states have begun serious diplomatic negotiations the israelis have tried to sabotage this the assassinated iranian scientists between 201-2012 when obama wanted to negotiate with the go on
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arguing the final days of the trumpet ministration day assassinated iran stop nuclear scientists with the aim of forcing a confrontation between iran and the u.s. and now that diplomatic talks have begun in vienna since last tuesday between iran and the us 1st they attacked the reigning cargo ship off the coast of yemen and now we have this cyber attack. and we're going to be continuing our special coverage ahead of monday's historic out of a story of the 1st manned space flight in a few minutes veteran space travelers tell us what hollywood gets wrong about space and its movies you're watching arctic.
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a. 3 man crew the loans came ahead of tomorrow's out of a story of the 1st manned space flight. of the rocket launched from the same site from west soviet cosmonaut yuri gagarin made history on the morning of the 12th of april 961. took off circling the earth for 108 minutes fly an instant global fame so we sent our correspondents on 3 continents to ask people to identify the space pioneer 60 years on.
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listen can you say did you get that in your to go out and let them come up and it all felt confident about god in your going to court. 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 wild actually your car is now if you. had a pet arsonist. and he's promised to do was the beast. so you did good god it was true but to speak with jesus is coming but good judgment to be a judgment is fairly good i mean you're getting.
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of the above mr looney could go to ames i want you to stop with a coffee on the. you already. saying kidney or do you want to go to any. kind of hole in a little bit of the kitchen and on a little enough to d. id. not. care for me here and that's something i. made with the mugello but i'm assuming there would. be a big easy anything we don't know for it i'm not there yet. invented an. ant unit. or to merkel one i.
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got from one thing on their b.c. dark. well this one here you have seen here i mean. i think that a. bit of russian guy the 1st guy and. something right. 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's. see things getting better and. here we go we are. supporting the. for 2 decades now humans have had a constant presence in orbit traveling at 27000 kilometers per hour on the
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international space station braving not only radiation but also high velocity space junk such as the astronauts and 2 cosmonauts including russia's only woman space pilots 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 what is the cause and we have every day there is a person responsible for it who monitors whether you pass an exam with 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 the recalls more exciting we have to be multiskilled specialists and know how to do everything yet when you're on your course of a couple of 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
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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 cosmos 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 with the thought that we're 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
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have power and you have water then 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 flags in your space it's all the situations when you feel. will come to dinner and say guys you won't believe what a discovery i've made and then you can add in cold excess don't tell them what's wrong with you will do share your research that entire time we're working together and we're inventing a slug 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 dave with 6 a day i know all of you have worked in space how does it feel to be on the brink of
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infinity isn't that terrifying if the nice the national it's not terrifying just terrifyingly 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 into the street and i don't know why the movies always make spaceflight look so sad you know all hollow 11 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. they were going to join us for more on monday's big anniversary as we celebrate space past present and future up next though more on the united states opioid addiction who's behind it and it affects my.
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today the industry prefers to spend millions of euros in you know being to do daily conditions i will be sniffy all about making money making profits in some of the big corporations international markets import export do you imagine the number of currently diseases that are in every community today it is new due to new viruses all new microbes facts not true so it is due to environment. and city though the momentum to supply the. really b.s. to cumulate could only come in to see in the thirty's. the plexus of the sky if the 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 i think into street not accept that we have regulation we want regulation i was in just
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a nice freedom behave zinnias penalties just fine. and in the 1996 something happened different a company called purdue pharmaceuticals came out with a drug called oxycontin and they started a mere and falsely promoted that opioids were rarely addict maybe only one percent of the time could you get it addicted to no. that was not true then and it is not true now and never was true that was a false statement and the other companies jumped on the bandwagon of making money and the false lies spread in the false marketing spread that they are guilty of lying about these tricks they cause the step i believe that with every fiber of my being. back in 1906 the 1st promotional ad
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campaign for an opioid was broadcasted we found it. when doctors were wrong in thinking that opioids can't be used long term they can be and they should be we used to think they'd stop working all the patients would become addicts or they'd be sent to. the 6 cases sure how wrong those fears were. in this little film the public was assured with certification that oxycontin would show no risk of addiction despite its high concentration in opium to make it believable a real doctor and real patients' bill witness they all confirmed that this treatment usually reserved for patients in the terminal phase of cancer.
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