the. week's top stories here on r.t. vaccine presidency throws up a major obstacle for the e.u. already stalling the regulator struggling to convince people that the astra zeneca vaccine is safe. will see the worst rioting in decades with gangs hurting petrol bombs and torching police cars. a former u.s. intelligence analyst faces years in prison for exposing america's drone warfare program he speaks to a whistleblower he'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.

thanks for joining us on a weekly or not international are welcome to the program. now the e.u. is this week struggling to revive public trust in the astra zeneca code vaccine is one of the 2 leading jobs being used across 27 nations that offer initially claiming the shot was entirely safe the european regulator is now saying severe blood clots should be listed as a rare side effect over in the u.k. authorities say the people under the age of 30 will be offered alternatives to the astra zeneca jabs use of the possible complications 80 people in the country have suffered from blood clots after a dose 19 have died which is regulated i was taking the same line as the european medicines agency but the benefits vastly outweighed the risks brought against the 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 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 important starts 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 and now it says of our safety

data of more than 10000000 records has shown no evidence of an increased risk of palm billie's 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 ive additional warning on it can cause blood clots and potentially death in people as young as 8 seed gauge 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 the. 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 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 especially 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 rights 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 austria is one of them and chancellor curds has already negotiated a possible purchase of the russian sport like the vaccine 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 i mean while the european medicines agency is still considering whether to approve this sport it could be shot process that has been going on for several months cancer surgeon bob job on thinks europe has in our 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 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 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 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 dozers it and now we are paying for those political shortcomings with human lives. and all that on and has been gripped by rising throughout the week police fired once a kind and for the 1st time in 6 years as pro u.k.

loyalists and irish nationalists faced off that is the coming with a wave of anger over post bricks at trade barriers this with a seat in belfast on friday night protesters torched the trash can on a cause and held rock some petrol bombs at police while the island's 1st minister ali foster has urged both sides to show restraint and the british prime minister has expressed his alarm uncool for dialogue. i am deeply concerned by the scenes of violence northern island 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 more than on ins justice minister has blamed the u.k. government for the flare up and the army long accused the conservatives of dishonesty over the way bricks it would affect they are with border saying and promised unaffected 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 agreements with the e.u.

aimed at ensuring an open border jonathan thomas a professor of british and irish politics thinks the government made a series of false promises to the people of northern ireland where the british government and vice johnson in particular have to bear a considerable amount of responsibility it was bars johnson who went over to belfast and totally democratic party the largest party in northern ireland told a public party conference 3 years ago that it would be an told him for any british government to preside over a border in the irish state forest johnson was attacking his previous us to treason may signing a deal within a year boris 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 just said well a simple i'm feeling 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 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 on goods go between great britain and northern ireland otherwise we're looking at a grim summer potentially of violence in northern ireland. a former us intelligence out of earth faces up to 10 years in prison for blowing the whistle on washington's drone assassination program that will hail pleaded guilty to transmitting national defense information his case comes amid mass this closure 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 hale 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 to supporters say these kind of exposes 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 vital public importance and activities related to their disclosure is protected by the 1st amendment. 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 in most countries but there are reports he aims to boost exports of unmanned weapons the countries including those with poor human rights records john kiriakou again says however justified whistleblowers exposure of the drone strikes. next to no chance of proving that the us or therapies. 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. well to developments this sunday have blackouts at an underground nuclear site in iran is being described as an act of terrorism by government officials not on this facility suffered an outage on sunday that's

a day off for the president unveiled a new set of advanced centrifuges for foss that you might even richmond media in israel say the incident was caused by a cyber attack by the israeli intelligence agency mossad that's based on western intelligence sources motorola has evolved to retaliate against the perpetrators but us so far not assign blame is that it threatens to overshadow ongoing talks between iran and world powers on reviving the 2015 nuclear deal to all university political science professor how much told us that he thinks israel is the most likely culprit . iranian official so far have not formally accused anyone but 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 are the assassinated iranian scientists between 201-2012 when obama wanted to negotiate with iran arguing the

final days of the trumpet ministration days sasson aided iran's top nuclear scientists would be a move forcing a confrontation between iran and the us and now that our 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. what continue our special coverage ahead of monday's historic out of us or we are the 1st manned space flight in a few minutes veteran space travelers tell us what the final frontier holds in store including for hollywood you what you are things that are against what. is your media a reflection of reality. in

a world transformed. what will make you feel safe. isolation or community. are you going the right way or are you being legs or. direct. what is true what is great. in the world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the depths. already made in the shallows. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy foundation let it be an arms race. spearing dramatic development that only really exists i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit

down and talk. to the weekly this week the international space station welcomed a new 3 man crew but all this came out of monday's anniversary of the 1st manned space flight. and the rocket launch from the same site from where soviet cosmonaut yuri gagarin made history on the morning of the 12th of april 61 his boss talk one craft took off circled the earth for 108 minutes the flight want to go an instant global fame we sent our correspondents on 3 continents the last people to identify the space

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decades now humans have had a constant presence in orbit traveling at 27000 kilometers per hour on the international space station braving radiation and high velocity space junk so good sailor quiz that astronauts and 2 cosmonauts including russia's only one space pilot on the joys and challenges of life in 0 gravity. what does the typical day of the cosmonauts preparing for flights look like the 1st one for example with us that doesn't have a shuttle for 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 was 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 you know 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 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 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 movies and those a 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 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 from. 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 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 the 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 the best way it's not terrifying just terrifyingly interesting is dangerous and hard work but it's fascinating you see you home in space from the outside and you see the whole planet and it's amazing to go out in your spacesuit is 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 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. up next thought it all came entry follows in the footsteps of fear that a huge risk in one of russia's most experienced cos one holds for us viewers it's just press play we were told and often out with the latest headlines join us again

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6 the. field or your cheek until his 1st flight at the age of 4311 days at the space station was preceded by 4 years of preparation for the give. away. he didn't even get his own cabin and had to sleep in a sleeping bag or else. he would wail support and use the good door to 2nd flight last in 6 months he accompanied charles symon e. a space tourist it was a tricky mission the cosmonauts were almost evacuated back to earth the computers in the russian center crashed after coming back to earth your chief in was sure it would be his last flight with you was a mystery said. written. to the school students and. lo and behold field is back at

the space station preparing for a space walk around here. to fish but if i do you could come out. of here to put me up to run to see what it's called. he carried the olympic torch in space. and gave a concert in syria gravity. chief in his now 57 and he's getting ready for his face flight he spent 11 years of his life trying to get on the team for a good reason he knew he'd been born to fly since he was a child.