the moon the sun headlines from moscow, the e, you know, accept digital covert 19 certificates from sa marino. these populations almost fully vaccinated with the splitting the vaccine. the very same russian job is still waiting approval from the blocks medical agency a year on from the deadly blast that ripped apart a route and took hundreds of lives at the same time, one local nurse who work that fateful day. she has her harrowing experience with this insight. i really bad, but i had gone because i had these leaving some type of way. i could not go into panic mode to cover up or not. well, to rage over just how effective wearing those medical mosques are in controlling

the spread corona virus. sweden, this drop the requirement before recording 0 new code cases. but the other hand viewed, the u. s. says it's crucial to where one now vaccinated or not. i'll pamela guess, discuss the conflicting recommendations. they told us to wear the mask, and then we won't have locked downs. and now we're doing locked downs. it's one of the risk reduction in nature. we need to several helping behaviors. ah, 1 pm here. now, good day from russia this wednesday, the 4th of august. you watching out into national with me, kevin. oh, good company. so they're the headlines they use recognize cobra. the vaccination certificates issued by san marino, that tiny country with a majority of those banks made of received rushes. sputnik bay. it means that vaccination citizens can travel freely within the e u. digital health passes would be equally valid as those for pfizer, a den,

or all the other jobs approved by the used medical regulator. splitting the v though has not yet been cleared and people are not related in, for example, russia can't travel to the you without a p c r test. at the moment sun merino could legally import that job because it's not a member of the european union. he's tunnel quarter joins task tailored to explain this latest development in a bit more depth. well, what it does mean basically, is that the european union has split a significant demographic of its citizens into 2 groups. those people who have been vaccinated with sputnik v and can travel freely, and those people who have been vaccinated with sport and agree and cannot travel freely. i mean, it all comes down to these coven certificates that allow for unrestricted movement between you states. now, san marino certificates are valid in the e. u and that's a, that's a country that has 90 percent of its population vaccinated with sputnik me. we have

had these certificates for several weeks now. europe has had them since yesterday. the signature of the commission chairman ursula fonder lion under the document is dated july 30th. thus, they recognize that the technical characteristics of our certificate correspond to european once this decision is of a technical nature. it does not imply recognition of specific v. it is about a digital signature. our green pass with a q r code is now readable in european apps. so basically, anyone who got the student, the shot in san marino is now considered vaccinated in the wild. those who got it anywhere else in the world literally are considered unvaccinated or potentially ill . why has that? does that mean? is it because russia sending higher quality sputnik v sharp to send marino or something obviously not in there, but also does that. i mean, why does that you still refuse to, to approve the rocks? and so it seems like that you want to get the protection offered by the student, the vaccine where it can, while at the same time,

curbing its larger acceptance throughout the continent. i mean, the european medicines agency has been dragging its feet on, like, you know, validating despotic the shot are not validating it for months now. and in the meantime, over $65.00 countries around the world have already given the russian shot the green light, including some european countries that just didn't want to wait for brussels approval. that includes hungry and slovakia, including san marino. and people for you know, hungry in slovakia now can't travel freely between e u countries while others from san marino can at the same time, it seems like there's potentially a bureaucratic problem on the horizon. i mean, we just also saw reports that the italian authorities are refusing these cobra 1900 certificates to people from san marino, who got the student to be shot. so it's not clear how this is going to be implemented. it seems like there's just a lot of confusion and that this is a contradiction in the law right now. revolt or an international relations expert

and former employees got his own view on the commission's decision, and it's not favorable is not a measurable office. i'm afraid that mainly in brussel is a measure of politics because you see equally, it cannot prove if e n a is not approved. but the fact that the m a is a de la paying approval for release on that. nobody knows. maybe you know what you need to be. nobody knows why e n a is not a probing to be intelligent people that went to san marino for painting the sport niga already the mounts ago. not all right now to receive the green bus. it is really ridiculous because it is a no and that the sport is at least the valid as the other by signing

at least if not more. and so the, well, the euro wrangles, we've covered health pass roll ads, american pharmaceutical jones, pfizer maternity vaccines are approved by the european commission, reportedly taking a controversial step by hiking their prices for cobra. vaccines in the u. the u. k . financial times is reporting that a shot of maternity vaccine is to go up by 2 euros, and 5 is by $4.00, and $5.00 is raising its annual earnings for cars to, to go up a 1000000000 dollars to 33500000000 company also plans. it says to provide 500000000 doses to the u. s. so it can dispense some of them to the world's poorest countries. pfizer and the commission, yet to comment on the jump in price. beyond the redacted contracts published by the european commission, the content remains confidential. and so we wouldn't be commenting. i spoke with political on this nicholas merck of ed. she told me the price hike has left him

pretty much baffled, silly in his opinion, because it's go against all usual business practice of supply and demand. how bizarre is this? we're in this situation today with countries like france, germany, italy, are thinking about making vaccination mandatory. so we should be ordering even more vaccines than just at that moment. major companies like medina and pfizer are increasing their prices were normally if you respect supply and demand, the prices should go lower. so this is something there's something fishy behind to say here to make a profit. i don't believe that at all. i think that they have to be cautious now because everybody's looking, we're going to be making 3rd over 30000000000 dollars this year alone. why are they increasing the price? i'm not even speaking about the fact that the whole contract between the european union and these companies is secret. the fact that they're rising the prices by more than 20 percent, it's something which is definitely not normal. i don't know why. countries today are imposing the vaccine with such a price, increase the profit for is it for the people getting the vaccine or is it for these

companies? that's the right question. it's exactly a year since that devastating chemical blast in beirut, the claim, the lives of more than $200.00. it's believed to be one of the largest non nuclear explosions in history. you may find the next video of it and upsetting to see again the ash human rights group on the international condemned lebanese officials for as they put it shamelessly, obstructing the investigation into the blast. then one of lebanon's, eldest hospitals, was devastated by the explosion as well. they're one most died at the time, but also the taiwan person was born at that very minute. a year on the baby said to be doing well. we spoke to a nurse on the maternity unit that fateful day. she told us panic wasn't an option

because it was simply too much to do. and then i was putting my mother in both my day and i do remember my cleaning alone feeling very bad that i did not know if i was okay to be able to be a great kid and didn't have an idea what has what has happened. so i, when i take my hands and i was able to, i supposed to be the one to be where, where are they? they are okay. so this is what they would up and maybe see where they would and take them inside there. we just went to bed. i had gone because i had some sideways. i could, i could not go into panic mode. i had to stay going to be able to be in,

babies were giving me breathing and they said that they had to keep going and things to be able to be. and so every day they send me pictures and they send me everything. they how they say, how they feed the things. are they doing very well. thank you. that's good to hear in sweden. so the else good to hear has marked the last few days with 0 new coven cases, and no more than one death per day over the last 3 weeks. despite the country dropping the mandatory wearing of masks on july, the 1st well fears grow above the new, highly contagious still to vary around the world. sweden's chief epidemiologist, none the less argues the more date or is needed before they move against any new strains. it is difficult to say how contagious delta is asked when it comes to chicken pox. we have been able to follow that disease for several years. the

effectiveness of delta seems to be very uneven. in some cases, one person effects a 100 people. then we have other occasions where an effective person does not affect any one at all other european countries on the us or however skeptical about that approach the mentality, restrictions due to the surge in the spread of the delta straight. just last week, america centers for disease control and prevention won't. there's an urgent need for both. those are vaccinated and crucially vaccinated to, to wear masks. our guest debated the conflicting guidelines tweeted didn't do any mask band dates, and there's a lot of literature out there that shows that mass don't work. so if the w h wants to let us believe in mass that i would like to see the data that shows that makes a big difference. wearing a mask, reduce the risk of transmitting coping by 20 percent since she and even a one find for point 2 industry. in fact, yes, we should overall reduce the transmission of the virus on my prevent. part of the

other risk addiction measures that they told us get the vaccine any get off the mask when we ever got vaccinated, and we're still we're in a mass. so i'm not really sure it with respect to that because they told us to wear the mask and then we won't have locked downs. and now we're doing lock downs, meaning no school or things like that. a lot of countries now are protesting. you know, germany had tremendous protests, australia had from protest, france and tremendous protests. so, you know, we gotta bring the people on because it's all about public health. it's selfish or not where mosque when you should be, whatever i'm asking when there's a chance to actually infect somebody else. we need to present powerful images and 2 voices of doors. we need to protect the law on their balls, and the message should be focusing on others. what has happened with the buyers? it's already gone to the community. and those people who survived, which is the majority,

now have antibodies and have heard immunity. it's one of the risk reduction measures. we need several help. protective behaviors wash our hands, where mosque keeps social distancing, and they all would use the percentage risk question is, how could be persuade people who now see mosque wearing as a belief choice. the single biggest influence across all reasons for wearing a face mask abused to be long. kevin, i want to see this hour of the break those electric scooters increase in a number and jumped up city's review. look lots of pros, but then increase the number of columns to unsafe, the worries we look at it. 90 seconds ahead. the ah

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ah. again quarter past the hour and so they're more than the popular. they're eco friendly. we're talking those electric scooters. it seems we popping up but more and more and getting foster foster as well. we already get anyway. in theory. they're a great way to get around the city. yeah. but it goes without saying the wrong hands or face with the big enough pothole the my know be to say for the right or anything in there. way more mal accidents are being reported. we took a test drive and through 2 very busy cities. fast, convenient and environmentally friendly. e scooters massively growing in popularity here in the u. k. over the last few years. the relatively cheap to run and use electricity. so that perfectly invoke with the current focus on renewable energy.

although russia is a relatively low lead boomer in the market of shareable electric scooter, this service has spread rapidly across the country where the number of users doubling. since the beginning of the pandemic, as more people are being encouraged to use. and the virtual means of transfer it, it's also become an all time favorite among all kinds of delivery companies. these good or if i available for rand, for a number of different smartphone apps and can be found pretty much on every street corner. yet not everyone is so keen on the british government, his bond excuses from public roads saying they can only be used on private land. it is not currently possible to get appropriate insurance for privately owned e scooters. meaning it is legal to use them on the road or in public spaces. it is legal to use and excuse her, on private land, with the permission of the landowner from specific companies on the road. the spart

protective measures up 220-0000 accidents involving excuses are protected by the end. the here are also concerns around the impact that you're having on vulnerable people in society. especially the visually impaired leaving me to wonder exactly where london the stand and the question of a, you know, people that have actually had to go to school because of so far as the driver myself, i think any dangerous, it depends on the news clued up there didn't nothing, there was trouble fall to false and there's no oversight. there's no guidance for these people. they just buy them and, and they're just allowed to get onto the road in the footway without any guidance, a few weeks back. and we're just going so fast. and then i think the honda at the top just came off in the middle of the road. the guy just fell off. but luckily there wasn't another call. it could've been a fatal accident. yes. as the number of people whizzing around

moscow parks and pavements growth. so does the number of accidents involving e scooters count. people have died within the past 2 years. many believe that the reason is that e scooters operate in a legal gray area. and it's true. according to the current legislation, a person on an e scooter is a pedestrian, but in reality, this is a person on a fast moving object. the city council has so far responded by introducing the so called flow zones, limiting the speed for rent it extra scooter is to 15 kilometers per hour down from 30 to 40 kilometers per hour. but clearly that's not enough. yeah, i think it's good or are fun, but moscow is not well suited to damage from other a few places. you can right safely, fissions cycling and pretty narrow sidewalk. the most i can see to the east. we do to be a mood of drones for that and it's quite dangerous. if so,

the near the people who don't have driving license don't lie with the calls which can result in atlanta and local infrastructure is not thought through. scooted, there are no special zones, but there are lots of inconsistency is okay to right on the side. should you cycling? they should be regulated legislative level. the infrastructure should definitely be modified to suit the traffic lights and special things create the metropolitan police. a concerned about the use of e scoots is in crimes with the forces figures saying that excuses were involved in 574 recorded crimes in london. such as robberies or assault between the 1st of july 2020 and the 30th of april 2021. perhaps the reason why rental services such as this one require you to provide your biometric data including facial recognition in order to hire one. i think what's more important is the safety rather than face recognition. i'm let people use that bank cards like they use

a bar 5 to 6. take them out. i think the 1st thing they need to think about is safety. i personally don't think it's necessary. i mean it's obviously like you said, that's a crime. surely they have cctv and i'll say probation that i think you need to guide your face to use a bike or a screw up why you do that with that, but maybe it's unnecessary to get a snapshot, i think would be better for public safety if the had some means of id like credit card, debit card, something like this, with a place. because if you've got someone's pitch on information about that person, it would be quite easy to, to, to get the people to make the menace with regard to these schools. many believe it's the task of police to regulate and control how people use scooters. but in fact, it's more complicated and all sides should be involved, the rental companies, the transport authorities,

and the users themselves. and while it can take months to work out a proper legislative base for the service, the scooters will continue to zoom along the streets of our big cities. well, at least until winter, for sure. yes, will. these in brief is came in a few hours ago. this morning, the driver's a to trains know we're hearing killed in a rush hour crush. in the czech republic happened about a 150 kilometers west of prague. 5 fi to say 38 were injured there including 7 in critical condition, according to check railways. one of the trains is an international high speed service to germany. the other was a local commute to trade, initial reports, but investigation still going on, suggesting maybe the crush happened because one of the drivers missed a red light trucking those fires still raging across southern europe. and greece is the latest country to suffer. a major highway leaking athens to northern and southern grace has been cut off the nations really under the worst heat wave in 30

years, with weather services warning temperatures. could it 44 degrees c this week, more than 500 firefighters, unfortunately, been deployed so far. they got a real job on their my this isn't just lost our update in kiev and an identified month threatened to detonate a hand grenade earlier at the entrance of the building houses, the ukrainian covenant. the facility has been evacuated, special forces responded to the alarm, and here, the suspects number detained, that federal incident, and no word at all at the moment about what his motives may or may not have paid charities in the u. k. a sounding the alarm of what they claim is a public health emergency with locked the loss of loved ones, last homes and jobs, pushing people to the edge. many turned to drugs the according to data from the office for national statistics, the number of deaths related to narcotics in england and wales in 2020 was almost 4

percent higher than 2019. that is the highest since records began in 9093, the chief executive of one the u. k. addiction center telling us he's not surprised either. you said it's easy to get your hands on. some of these drugs were living in a parallel pandemic, a drug, alcohol, and mental health pandemic is only worse and due to the virus. enough is enough. we need to come together as a society and take reelection. similar situations been registered in other countries to take scotland for instance, stop. so the last couple of days saying that the more drug death per capita than any of the european country, then you go over to the united states, stealing with a 30 percent increase compared to previous years. experts we had from pointed out the aggravating factors at play. if you stop interaction between people, if you limit the possibility to meet and to hang out in

a pop and meet friends, it is obvious that this will have some effect on the psyche of people. so i think it was just a prioritization of the fighting of the virus problem. and government simply forgot that people are not machine which you can separate, you will have an effect. and this effect is now being seen in terms of depression and rising track, drug abuse. drugs has become a lot more accessible by the advance of the incident and more specifically by the ability to pay anonymously on the, in some extra things. so we have seen that as has become easier to purchase things on the internet and pay for them in a non traceable manner. people's confidence in, in purchasing illegal substances on the internet has increased. so we are,

we are aware that there is a change in, in the access routes of illegal substances that our service uses participates in. and certainly the incident plays a very large role in that. yeah. recovery one year and a half is faint. now you're gonna find much more of what we're talking about today dot com, or any of a social media get involved in the conversations. if you will, i can tell you call embrace here in our for now to take you through the afternoon. sus catallo. the saved in great lena said for you today, but for now we're phoning from moscow kevin, over the teams starting off and i'm thanking you for watching me driven by shaped by those in

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