week's top stories on r.t. presidency throws up a major obstacle for the use already. struggling to convince people that the astra zeneca shot is say. since it has been shown that there are people who have unfortunately died after getting vaccinated for the same the risk is low in their best interest i think we don't know what to trust you will be to talk. hold on and see if it's worth writing in decades with rival gangs holding actual bombs on tossing police cars. over 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. from moscow thanks for joining us on the weekly here not international on daniel hawkins wherever you are today welcome to the program. the e.u. this week has 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 european regulators are now saying severe blood clots should be lifted 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 it would 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 a point to do something 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 in 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 it 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 of 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 develop a coherent approach across the region through their guidance and analysis the trustees to extremely important we want to avoid of course the vaccination as 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 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 that 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 that night in fact seen in preference to the astra zeneca vaccine regulators are now would voicing 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 bid to put an end to the current nightmare jollity will be auty paris meanwhile supply shortages continue to plague the use inoculation efforts tension's shifting to an alternative vaccine the russian made sport mcvie so far just one nation western europe has fully embraced the job the micro state office on the reno we spoke with a senior official there. ok we thought our daughter's fed

up we face a delayed to survive the 1st doses of the pfizer vaccine which were covered by protocol agreements between. the pen to make forced us to special other solutions on the market through cooperation with the russian direct investment fund we managed to. stop this politically vaccines and start our vaccination campaign with vaccinations are now primarily being carried out with sputnik. 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 the safety and efficiency of this jab to date we have had absolutely no problems some minor reactions we have detected comply with standard reactions to mean isolation which include low grade fever chills and so on right now we have no problems with the. sun moreno hopes to complete its oxidation

campaign by may be located within. 34000 people lined up for the sport and job 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 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. all the european medicines 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 brewery schuman. to zetia all words would leap in europe and their political point of view with these issues to be their duty to do and their commercial point of view i'd prefer to think 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 the i hope that yet 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 bridge is what they want.

northern ireland has been gripped by rioting throughout the week police fired water cannon for the 1st time in 6 years as pro u.k. loyalists and irish nationalists faced off that is the evidences come amid a wave of anger over post bricks a trade barriers this was the scene in belfast on friday nights protesters torched trash cans on a current held rocks and petal bombs at police northern ireland's 1st minister adina foster has urged the both sides to show restraint and the british prime minister has expressed his alarm and call 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. or meanwhile or that autumn's justice ministers blame the u.k. government for the flare up and accuse the conservatives of dishonesty over the way bricks it would affect the irish border so you have promised unfettered 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 so 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 via johnson and in particular have to bear a considerable amount of responsibility it was boris johnson who went over to belfast and told the democratic unity party the largest party in northern ireland told the public party conference 3 years ago that it would be in told him for any british government to preside over a border in the irish state forest johnson was attacking its previous us a treason mate for signing up such 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're just a loyalist symbol and feel 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 get 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 assassination program daniel hale pleaded guilty to transmitting national defense information its 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. all data which israel gave to the online news site to the intercept back in 214 was made available to the public and he's now accused of disclosing classified intelligence information and its supporters say these kinds 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 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 it was arrested 2 years ago and charged with violating the espionage act as well as other related offenses president biden has imposed temporary restrictions on drone strikes in most countries where 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 whistle blows exposure of drone strikes got next to no shards 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 that on the ground nuclear site in iran is being described as an act of

terrorism by government officials the not ons facility suffered an outage early on sunday a day off for the president unveiled a new set of advanced centrifuges for foster you raymond richmond media and israel say the incident was caused by a cyber attack by the israeli intelligence agency mossad spy still western intelligence sources alter on is about to retaliate against the perpetrators but is not so far assigned blame to sort of threatens to overshadow ongoing talks between iran and world powers on reviving the 2050 nuclear deal or all university political science professor ahmed massai told you thinks israel is the most likely culprit. iranian official so far have not formally accused anyone but i do. 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 i joined 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. the international space station welcome the new 3 man crew on friday 2 russians and one from the united states laws came out of monday's anniversary of the 1st human spaceflight.

all the rockets took off from the same site from where soviet cosmonaut yuri gagarin made history on the morning of the 12th of april 19th 61 his vostok one craft blasted into orbit circling the earth for a total of 108 minutes flood water ghar an instant global fame we sent our global correspondents to find out if the memory was there life. of britain can help you to get that if you're going to come up with an adult that's not enough to enjoy. and i think here you could go right recognizing me and i wish i knew armstrong i'm sorry i don't know where. face recognition skills in the wild actually your car is now if you had a. bad arsonist. and steve thomas who produced

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and let. me take you to remember and. you will be. sporting the. well again i said over was the 1st russian woman to fly into the s.s. if you tell us more the national space travelers have 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. little book a small elf every cosmonaut is an engine near 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 and 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 almost 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 gloss more to know as we make 16 fool orbits around the air 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. org and i was none too

pleased with reporters asking a house should 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 interstellar styling. 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. because all sound 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 confidence. because one of the the cosmonauts always gave me the autographed photos after haircuts one day my husband had become a left turn and calm because none of them are 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 cosmonaut and here they are the healthiest they are simple interesting people just like you and me but heroes. will help you if you will i hope you join us for the day's big anniversary celebration as we commemorate space past for the future and your heart will be with you here in the studio and often our to give you the morning world news update to join us again back on.

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slowing welcome across the uk where all things are considered i'm peter lavelle there are calls for a 911 style investigation into the capitol hill riots of january 6th is this an effort to seek the truth or to fabricate another massive political hoax also does nato want russia and ukraine to go to war. to discuss these issues and more i'm joined by my guests george samueli in budapest he's a pop caster at the gaggle which can be found on you tube and rumble and here in

moscow we're joined by dmitri bobbish he is a political analyst and editor at me internet media project gentlemen crossed up rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it ok let's start out with george and budapest george you know ever since the the riots of january 6th have been there's been talk all the way from the all the way down to amis n.b.c. and c.n.n. and all that. wall street journal washington post on and on for a 911 style investigation here on the face of it i don't have a problem with that at all i mean about apparently the d.o.j. is doing something they need more time that's all we find out ok but i really worry is this another is this in the extension to the russia gate hoax or this and a completely new incarnation because given what we've seen over the last 5 years or what what no hope and trust you have that this isn't going to turn into a poet.