the. week's top stories on r.t. rock seen hesitancy throws up a major obstacle for the e.u. is already stalling rolled out. struggling to convince people of the astra zeneca. say. northern ireland sees its worst rioting in decades with rival gangs hurling petrol bombs and torching police cars would fuel trade barriers. in the u.s. intelligence analyst faces years in jail for exposing america's drug warfare program you 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.

from moscow thanks for joining us in the weekly here on r.t. international i'm daniel hawkins here with you all nights welcome to the program. at the e.u. has this week been struggling to revive public trust in the astra zeneca code 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 regulator is now saying severe blood clots should be listed as a rare side effect over in the u.k. authorities say that people on the b age of 30 will be offered alternatives to the astra zeneca job due to possible complications 80 people so far in the country have suffered from blood clots after a dose 19 died but britain's regulator is taking the same line as the european medicines agency that the benefits vastly outweigh the risks. 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 slow usual 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 analysis of our safety 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 such an alternative face seen is available over 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 it's a stupid move because changing the name which means changing your shop window right in the midst of a crisis rather then 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 right 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 charles most of us encourage has already to go shave every possible purchase of the russian sport mcvie job 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 we morally european medicines agency still considering whether to approve the sporting v shot process that have been going on for several months of cancer surgeon bob john thinks europe has 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 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 seems 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. northern ireland has been gripped by rising throughout the week police fired was accounted for the 1st time in 6 years as pro u.k. loyalists and irish nationalists faced off but it has come amid a wave of anger over post bricks a trade barrier this was the scene in belfast on friday night protesters torched

a trash can and a car and held rocks and petrol bombs at police more than on and 1st minister on foster has urged both sides to show restraint the british prime minister has expressed his alarm and cool 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. well meanwhile or the island's justice minister has blamed the u.k. government for the flare up and only long accused the conservatives of dishonesty over the way bricks it would affect the irish border saying they promised unfettered access while failing to work through the legal consequences she also salaam 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. aim of ensuring an open border. professor of british and irish politics thinks the

government made a series of false promises to the people of the northern island where the british government bonds johnson in particular have to bear 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 an told him for any british government to preside over a border in the irish state forest johnson was attacking its predecessor treason may signing the deal within a year boris johnson done that and since then he spent a lot of time pretending that there is more between great britain and northern ireland so you're just a loyalist single there are a few 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 analyst faces up to 10 years in prison for blowing up the blowing the whistle on washington's drone assassination program that he'll hail pleaded guilty to transmitting national defense information his case comes amid a 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. or data which hale gave the online you saw at the intercept back in 214 was made available to the public he's now 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 vital public importance and activity

related to their disclosure is protected by the 1st amendment or hail was arrested 2 years ago and charged with violating the espionage act as well as other related offenses the president biden has imposed a temporary restrictions on drone strikes in most countries but there are reports the aims to boost exports of unmanned weapons to countries including those with poor human rights records john kiriakou again says however justified will still blows exposures or drone strikes are they have next to no shots of proving that to 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. but at once this sunday a blackout on the ground nuclear site in iran is being described as an act of terrorism by government officials but i thought this facility suffered an elf on sunday a day off of the president unveiled a new set of a devolved centrifuges for foster uranium enrichment 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 or sauron as a vow 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 there on university political science professor how much of a salvi told us 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 they assassinated iranian scientists between 201-2012 when obama wanted to negotiate with the go on arguing the final days of the trumpet ministration days sasson aided your aunt's top 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 u.s. 1st they attacked the reigning cargo ship off the coast of yemen and now we have this cyber attack. told children to give up their dreams of flying and scrap funding for ovation club he's put it work or hit the runway and got a reaction to a grounding from the flight instructor. how mark show you are willing to sacrifice to save the world's air travel is a major contributor to climate change that's

a fun book and 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's here a one. has said that kids should give up their dream of flying in france of all places the home we were mad last the birthplace of the creator of the little prince i'm trying to sign things you can't leave. 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 sloshed 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 edge 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 as an idea but some point in the future it might be one of but for the pursuit of future is just people. without. everybody knows the stomach and come short 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 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 for you ok ga be generally here with enough to print on 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 will that be right. but but if you're thinking about climbing you call the emergency if you want to things are more important than this i'm not i'm not i'm not debugging something nice to be done for my grandchildren or 3 are great but generally the ocean. is just a pimple on the pigs but. i think 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 that as i must still wishing to take the saw is well play manufacturers both big and small are working on creating new nonpolluting models. the international space station welcome the new 3 man crew on friday to russians on one from the united states launch comes out of monday's anniversary of the 1st human space flight. well the rocket took off from the same site from where a soviet cosmonaut yuri gagarin made history on the morning of the 12 april 19th 61 his vostok one craft blasted into orbit circling the earth for 108 minutes the flight brought the gaar an instant global fame we sent our global correspondents to

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over was the 1st russian woman to fly that i assess she told us multinational space travelers have had to create their own language to make themselves understood. let's look at as most of what we 1st joined the cosmonaut team candidates and then go through preparations which take your own 2 years during this time was study space craft and space station systems we also prepare for some experiments which are carried out in the international space station so we study biotechnology astrophysics astronomy we study the stars that's part of the compulsory program physical exercises are also added a lot of time is dedicated to that and of course math and it's very important for the cosmonaut to stay healthy throughout their preparatory stage so that they can get through it there is also a special training including parachute jumping and learning to react fast and make

proper decisions at extreme situations with a time constraint. lucas myself every cosmonaut is an engine ear as well as a researcher i also had an additional function i was the crew's doctor our functions were interchangeable all of us did the routine tasks into and there was also plenty of research work our crew carried out more than 60 experiments in areas including biotechnology astrophysics and chemistry our crew work together in harmony and we had no language problems as there are 2 international languages on the i assess russian in english and we communicated by mixing languages a board you could call it our brains are always trying to remember shorter words so sometimes when i was beckoned us i found myself remembering an english word but not the russian so we worked in unison everyone has their own mission at the weekends we would get together with celebrated some holidays or just fridays watched movies

listen to music talk to each other there was work and saturdays and sundays but not as intense as the weekdays sometimes we even saying to a guitar as there is one on the r.s.s. . but almost if i miss being in space the feeling of the space flight is very special just to give you an idea in the u.s. orbital segment there is a glass more to know as we make 16 fool orbits around the earth each day we often fly over the night side and when you're in that more you turn off the lights so you can feel you're flying over the earth and you do not feel like you're in the station and that's a great sensation like being in and it is something i miss. or going to was none too pleased with reporters asking how should we look after our hair in space pointing out my own course with low such questions even so it is something all crew need to consider so we got the lowdown from the person in charge of interest that

are spoiling. because when i did not come to me specifically for a haircut i came to the hotel from my client the hotel the rector they said that i would do the hair for 3 cosmonauts and 3 understudies that is how it began on april 6th 2008. the book at all some wanted short some just a little off more carefully but there were also model haircuts there were different ones i even rated a korean cosmonaut girl she was 28 years old she was young i think she was the 1st korean cosmonaut i braided her hair and she went to the press conference like that one of his companions. because one of the the cosmonauts always gave me the autographed photos after haircuts one day my husband had become

a live 10 and called the cosmonauts was so happy he expressed support and signed a photo for my husband with congratulations on his promotion i would say they're not just ordinary people they heroes after all not everyone has the willpower courage and health to fly as we say in russian we as healthy as a cosmonauts and here they are the healthiest they are simple interesting people just like you and me but heroes. of rex thought he talk presents less of an in-depth look at poverty in america of the us for us it's just press play we're back and offer our latest join us again the.

today the industry prefers to spend millions of euros in nothing to do daily to day since i will be sniffing all about making money making profits in some of the corporations international markets import export do you imagine the number of chronic diseases that are in every family today it is not due to new viruses all new microbes that's not true so it is due to environment less will see the look on a city though the momentum of the discipline of a mayor of this sort of muscles are really just accumulate could only come into use

in the to be thought of in the list that allows us to play. 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 has an interest and if we don't behave zinnias penalty that's fine.