well if you. eat. the week's top stories on a vaccine presidency throws up a major obstacle for the e.u. already. struggling to convince people of the. shots is safe. for me there is a risk since it has been shown that there are people who have died after getting vaccinated the risk is low in their best interest i think we don't know what to trust. more than on and sees it's worth writing in decades with. petrol bombs on torching police cars i mean few post trade barriers. and a former u.s. intelligence analyst faces years in prison for exposing america's drone warfare 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. thanks for joining us tonight here on the top headlines. we all might welcome to the program. the e.u. this week has been struggling to revive public trust in the astra zeneca it's one of the 2 leading jobs being used across those 27 nations but after initially claiming that it was entirely safe the european regulators now saying severe blood clots should be listed as a rare side effect 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

it will 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 that 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 book's 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 so i defect not although we're convinced in 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 a causing a headache for brussels it's worried that without a common policy towards astra zeneca trust in vaccinations could be eroded commissioner as member states to ask experts to work with him to be coherent approach across the region through their guidance and analysis of the extremely important we want to avoid of course a vaccination however it may be that. 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 deep 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 facts seen adults who are aged 18 to 29 years old should be offered an alternative overnight in fact seen in preference to the astra zeneca vaccine regulators are now would voicing that astra zeneca provide 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 bid to put an end to the current nightmare jollity will be out see paris meanwhile supply shortages continue to plague the use inauguration efforts attention is now shifting to an alternative vaccine the russian made sputnik v. so far just one nation in western europe has fully embraced the job the microstate office on the reno we spoke with a senior official. ok we thought our daughter's

fed up we face a delayed to supply of the 1st doses of the pfizer vaccine which were covered by protocol agreements between italy and 10 merino the pen to make forced us to says for other solutions on the market through cooperation with the russian direct investment fund we managed to pair of those politically vaccines and start our vaccination campaign with vaccinations are now primarily being carried out with sputnik lee. 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 up to date we have had absolutely no problems some minor reactions we have detected to comply with standard reactions to mean a station which include low grade fever chills and so on right now we have no problems with. hopes to complete its vaccination campaign by may be on clay which

is located within italy is home to around 34000 people lined up for the sport job the misters 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 we saw the professionalism of the fun's 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 against 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 cove it this is where it's crucial for us to immunize our population as soon as possible when we thought there are access to 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 sputnik the. other european medicine agency still considering whether to approve sputnik v a process that's been going on for months a former italian m.p. told us the regulator needs to act faster. i think that europe is the laying tool matcher to give india out through asia. to use asia all those would leap in europe and their political point of view with these issues related to you and that point of view i'd refer to it being that it is not so important because or even. if you were a commercial reason it would be in order it is a very bad i hope that a wheel or 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. northern ireland has been gripped by rising throughout the week police fired water

cannon for the 1st time in 6 years as pro u.k. loyalists and irish nationalists faced off but is the evidence is came amid a wave of anger over a post bricks it trade barriers but this one was the scene on fraud on belfast in belfast rather friday night protesters torched the trust and other car and held rocks and petrol bombs at police ordinance 1st minister 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 in northern ireland especially attacks on the p.s. and i who are protecting the public in business attacks on a bus driver and the assault of a journalist this week to resolve differences is through dialogue not violence or criminality. meanwhile northern ireland's justice ministers blame the u.k. government for the flareup nomi long accuse the conservatives of dishonesty over the way bricks it would affect the 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 normal of the protocol which was part of the u.k.'s withdrawal agreement with the e.u. aimed at ensuring an open border sort of and on this 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 bonds johnson in particular have to bear a considerable amount of responsibility it was part of 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 its predecessor treason may signing a deal within a year for his johnson done that and since then he spent a lot of time pretending that there isn't one between great britain and northern ireland so you just have more of a simple than feel terrible sense of betrayal over what the prime minister was don't think that boris johnson needs to go to northern i'll 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 that protocol and diminish the number of checks get on goods go between great britain and northern ireland otherwise we're looking at a grim some of potentially of violence in northern ireland. for us intelligence analyst faces up to 10 years in prison for blowing the whistle on washington's drone assassination program ideal hale pleaded guilty to transmitting national defense information his case comes amid mass this closures 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 gave to the online new site the intercept back in 214 was made available to the public is now accused of disclosing classified intelligence information its 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 a vital public importance and activity related to their disclosure is protected by the 1st amendment a while 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 as to boost exports of on mind weapons to countries including those with poor human rights records john kiriakou again however justified whistleblowers exposures of drone strikes. to no shots 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 a blackout on the ground nuclear site in iran is being described as an act of

terrorism by government officials. not times facility. earlier on sunday as a day off the president unveiled a new set of a volt centrifuges for fast that you're writing in 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 there on his vow to retaliate against the fighters but a so far not assign blame the incident threatens to overshadow ongoing talks between iran and world powers on reviving the 2015 nuclear deal thrown university political science professor how it was savi told us earlier he thinks israel is the most likely culprit. iranian official so far have not formally accused anyone by. i think it's very 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 are 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 to stop nuclear scientists would be a nerve forcing a confrontation between iran and the us and now there are 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. the international space station welcomed a new 3 man crew on friday the russians and one from the united states laws came ahead of monday's anniversary of the 1st human space flight.

or the rocket took off from the same site where a soviet cosmonaut yuri gagarin made history on the morning of the 12th of april 1961 his boss talk one craft brought them into orbit circling the earth for 108 minutes the flight brought to go an instant global fame we sent our global correspondents to find out if the memory is that alive. to pay you to get that in your go to one of the stars that started out. 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 feels in the wild actually your car is now if you read

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let. me take you to remember and. you will be. sporting the. all you said over was the 1st female russian woman to fly to the i assessed she told us multinational space travelers had to create their own language to make themselves understood. let's look at because most of what we 1st joined the cosmonaut team candidates and then go through preparations which take your own 2 years during this time we study spacecraft 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 medicine 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 in extreme situations with a time constraint. lucas myself every cosmonaut is an engine 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 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 we 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 i was little 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 you 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 show it is something i miss lerner was none

too pleased with reporters asking our house to look after her in space pointing out male cosmonauts get no such questions even so it's something all crew need to consider so we've got the lowdown from the person in charge of interest that us thought only. 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. 100 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. us one of the the cosmonauts always gave me the autographed photos after haircuts one day my husband had become a left turn and call no because most of us 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're heroes after all not everyone has the willpower courage and health to fly as we say in russian we as healthy as a cosmonaut and here they are the healthiest they are simple interesting people just like you and me but heroes. worlds apart next to that sort of work are joined by modern a cool or prefer sort of medicine at harvard school the scots help cope with 19 still brilliant scientists and doctors with money puzzles back and often all the latest to join us again but on.

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nation still presents many mysteries to scientists and doctors in the public to mean it surrounded by just as many dog mustache challenging which mean proved more isolating than the disease and south given how politicized the issue of combination has become is there still drawn for cheney and scientific discourse to discuss that i'm now joined by dr martin door professor of medicine at harvard medical school professor good to talk to you think you very much for finding to try and thank you as a group pressure now what's interesting about your area of expertise is that you're essentially a big data guy you've been recognized for your ability to map out all grades before they even happened based on you know a number of the initial cases and yet through all of this been damaged i think you found yourself somewhat at odds with other big data companies like twitter.

ballo what conclusions can or cannot be drawn from big data don't you find the side wrong. yes very strange and i think it's travelling for 4 or science society for a couple of decades been doing research on. infectious disease are braced up to detect them quickly and how to monitor them as well as on that there you know as you know vaccines don't buy things safety so it's sort of strange that some pieces of the companies are censoring out some scientists but no others. and i think that's a good thing we need to have. public discourse and scientists that i don't agree with i do want them to be able to state their views because that is very important . that.