so join us in the. forum in the shallows. the week's top stories on our team vaccine presidency throws up a major obstacle for the e.u. has already rolled out with regulations struggling to convince people that the. job is safe. for me the reason this has been shown there are people who have unfortunately died after getting vaccinated it seemed the risk is low in their best interest i think we don't know what to trust you will be to the dark. writing in decades with rival gangs hurling petrol bombs on torching police cars refuse. trade barriers. and a former u.s. intelligence analyst faces years in prison for exposing america's drone warfare program. 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. from moscow welcome to the weekly here on r.t. international on daniel hawkins wherever you are welcome to the program. and the e.u. this week has been struggling to revive public trust in the astra zeneca. is 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 saying severe blood clots should be listed as a rare side effect we asked people in italy and france how they view the mixed signals. i know 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 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 it upon 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 really 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 books 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 side effect not although we're convinced and measures have been taken

it's only in spain of joined ranks with germany deciding to limit the job to those who are over the age over 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 the extremely important we want to avoid of course the vaccination as however it may be the. 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 the 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 the government committee is

recommending that healthy people under 30 are provided with a different vaccine and those who are aged 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 find using 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 big to put an end to the current nightmare jollity will be out see paris meanwhile supply shortages continue to plague the e.u. is an occupation effort and attention is shifting to an alternative vaccine the russian made sport mcvie so far just one nation in western europe has fully embraced the job the micro state of san marino we spoke with a senior official there. ok 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 new doses of this politically vaccine and start our vaccination campaign vaccinations 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 both safety and efficiency of the jab to date we have had absolutely no problems so minor reactions we have detected comply with standard reactions to unionization which include low grade fever chills and so on right now we have no problems. or sun moreno hopes to complete his vaccination campaign by may the enclave which is located within its earliest home to 34000 people most

adults are lined up for the sputnik jab ministers told us 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 the professionalism of the funds 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 fight to give corona virus 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 where 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

spinning the. other european medicines agency still considering whether to approve sport a process that's been going on for months a former taliban paid told us the regulator means to act faster. i think that europe is the laying tool matcher to give india out through asia about utilisation all those would mean can you in a political point of view with these issues be that you do and then that 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 hope that a wheel 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. for that island has been gripped by rioting throughout the week police fired was accounting for the 1st

time in 6 years as pro u.k. loyalists and irish nationalists faced off that is though and has come amid a wave of anger over post trade barriers this was the scene in belfast on a friday night which as the source the trash can in a car and fell the rocks and petrol bombs at police or the island'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 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 week to resolve differences is through dialogue not violence or criminality. meanwhile law than ireland's justice minister has blamed the u.k. government for the flare up and only long accuse the conservatives of dishonesty over the way bricks it would affect the irish border promised uneffected 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 that oftentimes professor of british and irish politics thinks the government 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 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 untold for any british government to preside over a border in the irish state forest johnson says hacking is predisposed 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 risk is more between great britain and northern ireland so you just have more of a simple i'm feeling terrible sense of betrayal over what the prime minister was 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 u.s. intelligence analyst faces up to 10 years in prison for blowing the whistle on washington's drone program daniel hale pleaded guilty to transmitting national defense information its case comes amid mass disclosure 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. all data which hale gave to the online news site the intercept back into a default team was made available to the public is now accused of disclosing classified intelligence information is supporters say these kind of exposures are essential 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 kill public importance and the 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 there are reports that he aims to boost exports of unmanned weapons to countries including those with poor human rights records john kiriakou again says however justified whistleblowers exposure of drone strikes if next to no shots are proving that to us or thirty's. 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 a blackout on the ground nuclear site in iran is being described as an act of terrorism by government officials and not on this facility itself and out his earlier on sunday a day off for the president on a vial of a new set of adult centrifuges for frost the iranian richmond media in israel say

the incident was caused by a cyber attack by the israeli intelligence agency mossad a spokesman of western intelligence sources to rot as a valid to retaliate against the perpetrators but has not so far assigned blame the incident threatens to overshadow ongoing talks between iran and world powers on reviving the 2050 nuclear deal thrown university political science professor how much it will solve 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 fair. it's likely that the israelis are behind this and this is not surprising in the past 10 years every time iran 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 iran i doing the

final days of the trumpet ministration days sasson aided iran's top nuclear scientists would be a nerve forcing a confrontation between iran and the us 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. we're going to do our special coverage ahead of monday's historic out of our story of the 1st manned space flight if you but it's better in space travelers tell us what the final frontier holds in store including for hollywood what's your the international join us again after this break. this. misguided believe by

a man you go by locking down the whole society you can somehow protect the old tyrus people who we're seeing now is the obvious that that wasn't the case it did not protect. the high risk pool of people because in the us we have had over half a 1000000 deaths mostly older people and there was a complete failure to saying that these lockdowns would actually protect all the high risk people. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have crazy people in from day should've let it be an arms race off and spearing dramatic development only. exist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk.

welcome back to the program this week the international space station welcomed a new 3 man crew the launch came ahead of monday's anniversary of the 1st manned space flight. well the rocket launched from the same site from where soviet cosmonaut yuri gagarin made history on the morning of the 12th of april 9611 craft took off certainly our throats a little of 108 minutes brought to garner instant global fame we sent our correspondents on 3 continents to ask people to identify the spice pioneer 60 years old.

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they were on their b.c. dark war but this one here you have to be on here i mean. i think that. guy the 1st guy and. something right. is real like an actor he was in that movie with my chevy chase down at ford like that in the eighty's. miracle in mustique. history. and let's. see things getting better and. you will be. sporting the. well for 2 decades now humans have had a constant presence in orbit traveling at 27000 kilometers per hour on the

international space station braving radiation and have a lot of the space junk. quicker than astronauts and cosmonauts including russia's only female 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 have a shuttle for 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 was studying computer techniques that variety makes the difficult training that it calls more exciting that we have to be multiskilled specialists and know how to do everything you know when you are in a car stop at the top i get it it sounds like space flight preparations are no 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 unexpected ways nasa has said it's planning to make the 1st ever movie field in space and at the same moment last cost was decided russia needs to make such a movie to play in 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 of that and 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 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 focus. 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 or do you 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 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 and a 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 national 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 into the street and i don't know why the movies always make spaceflight look so sad you know i'll 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. up next continues to follow in the footsteps of feel that if you're fishing one of russia's veteran cosmonauts for u.s. viewers it's america's lower next we're backing off now with the latest on the weekly altie international join us again that.

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