the block's vaccine shortages continue to mow and charlotte dubinsky has more now on europe's floundering inoculation campaign. well there is dissent in the e.u. ranks who are now saying enough is enough with this slow rollout of the vaccine process that is being watched by the e.u. let's take slovakia that's become the latest e.u. country to decide it needs to buy doses of the sputnik reback seen from russia it's made an order of around $2000000.00 doses it is the 2nd e.u. nation to do that how green is already in new york relating its citizens with the sputnik the vaccine and the czech republic is also said that it's interested in possibly buying it now the sumac in the pm said it was necessary to buy this vaccine to boost the inoculation program. buying this russian vaccine was the right thing to do it's trustworthy anyone who wants the job will get one in the next 2 months we will get 1000000 vaccines and then in may in june another 1000000 i believe that by meeting the deadlines promised supplies russia will prove that it's a stable partner we can rely on in these hard times since th

that their growth was quote safe and effective taking us through developments here's our teats charlotte dubinsky several scandinavian countries still sure about losing this vaccine that start with food and do it has now suspended the use of the asp is any good job why they think best against cases of potential blood clots on top of that we know that norway denmark and sweden they're all holding back for starting their programs all of them still have concerns about rounding astra zeneca and saying that they going to carry out this move the best case is now due to several serious cases and no way we want to thoroughly review the. before you make a conclusion well blood clots it is the issue that speaking just cussed over and over nots initially will be the main was investigating over the last week or so but there have been of the 'd much more serious effects that some say to astra zeneca let's have a look now at some of those cases. now the a.m.a. of course did carry out extensive investigations into these possible side effects and what they said at the press conference on thursday is that the vac

over a little over continuing lockdown measures with more on that incident here's our tease charlotte dubinsky. well this explosion took place in the early morning just outside that could send in an area called bhupen costco which is about 5055 kilometers north of amsterdam windows were shattered and the investigation so far has been able to uncover metal pieces of around 10 centimeters by 10 centimeters the suggestion is this could have seen a metal pipe bomb that exploded outside the front of the center a security guard was inside that it was just before the center was due to open but they are said to have been injured in this incident a perimeter has been set up in those investigations are now are continuing but the police have said that they clearly believe that this was an intentional attack we don't know yet what exactly exploded the explosives experts must 1st investigate what we can see is this something like that doesn't happen by accident it's has to be planted well this is not the 1st time we've seen an attack on a qubit send in the netherlands back in january just when we're seeing

about suspected infections and were encouraged by the crew to use the ship's facilities artie's charlotte dubinsky spoke to one of those passengers. sequoias yes the cruise was a chance to go with my son who was 5 years old to see a magical world and discover the magic of the caribbean instead it was a nightmare i wondered how i would get out of this hell because if i didn't i was going to die stephanie dubois was one of thousands of holiday makers aboard the cost a magical last year when the covert pandemic hit for her and her then 5 year old son it was supposed to be a dream voyage instead passengers found themselves trapped or bored with little information or what was happening as the virus spread through the ship. if they refused to inform us that there were cases of covert aboard the ship that they had tested positive there was no suspicion but indeed there were ill people they refused to give us information and we got it from the media when we were near the coast and could get a signal they concealed it from us and they didn't let us protect ourselves they didn't protect us either health wis

coronavirus sweeping across europe governments have again been ramping up to do the restrictions charlotte dubinsky has been looking at how the continents are shaping up in the latest battle against coping. european countries were hoping that by this spring it would be the beginning of the year and for the coronavirus crisis there was a promise that a year of lock downs and curfews would be sufficient in that we would be starting to return to normal instead of 3rd wave is rising as variants of the virus are once more forcing difficult decisions italy is taking a step back with most of the country returning to look down. on the basis of scientific evidence the government has today adopted restrictive measures that we have judged to be appropriate and proportionate in germany that's a question that's also on people's lips too from the data we currently have and with the spread of the british mutation we would argue strongly for returning immediately to a lock down to avoid a strong 3rd wave here in front the english variant has become mainstream accounting for more than 60 percent of all cases as inf

subsidized food from support groups restaurants and supermarkets holding on that this morning charlotte dubinsky from one paris help center where they can buy cheap meals. every day this canteen is packed with students all coming in here to pick up a hot meal as the covert crisis continues to point to groups have been hit hard by the pandemic many are now without work and the means to support themselves demand for financial help from a public service the student life which also runs services like this canteen has increased sharply every week around 40000 meals are being distributed to students in paris by this organization meals they can take home and heat up later or meals that they can take out now and eat because they're horton ready all at the price of one euro now that's been in place since january as a system to help those students who are really in need demand is so high that cruise has partnered with other organizations in a bid to reach more students in trouble. we have 0 of many students turn into words different types of aid wonderfully social services deliveries for example for buyin

venues and have pressured the culture minister to speak with them reporting from paris here charlotte dubinsky. i know my eyes. thank you for the chorus of calls demanding the reopening of cultural venue's is growing aloud day in france but with no clear end date in sight to the closure of theaters concert hall cinema museums so mother taking more drastic measures over the last week 3 of france's 4 national theatres including this one behind me have been occupied by protesters it is true that every day several times a day we take another place a new theatre a new national stage is occupied in this way with multiply in the case of resistance to make our claims heard so we've all hit by the o.t. now for a week and for that it serves as a place of residence the odeon is a symbolic place it was occupied in the $968.00 process there are already struggles that have been expressed in this place in fact it was the base to signal the alarm of the cultural catastrophe which is taking place protesters who set up shop here at the vote in favor to say they won't leave until their demands are met them not k

charlotte dubinsky has more on the case and the revelations from the 13 year old girl. i know what that entailed and what sparked all of this is a class that he taught which was to do a civics getting the children to discuss issues in france as part of that class he decided to show the controversial images of the prophet mohammed now that sparked a chain of events that led to his death it started with a teenage girl a teenage girl who admits she lied about what she said she went home that day and said to her father that she had been asked to leave the class because she was a muslim and when she disagreed with the teacher she had been suspended from his class for that was furious as you can imagine called to the school and demanded that samuel patti be struck off the teaching staff there to offer him to resign when that didn't work he started an online campaign which became a hate campaign towards samuel party describing the teachers being discriminatory against his daughter what's now emerged is that the 13 year old fabricated all of that she was in his class on the day

free travel across the bloc that follows increasing pressure from tourism reliance states as charlotte dubinsky reports. the european commission outlining on monday that its member states need to look at a common approach to easing restrictions put in place by the kovac 19 pandemic this is going to come in the sense of a framework which will look at things such as vaccination tests and also look at those who've been able to recover from the virus this is going to come in the form of a digital green certificate and the idea is to reestablish the freedom of movement across the bloc that is a fundamental right here in europe this is what the european commission president. had to say with this digital certificate to help the member states reinstate the freedom of movement in a safe responsible and trusted manner we're told that the data will be protected so there will be security around that but countries will be able to collect information all of those who are coming into the territory this proof will then be . restrictions restrictions such as quarantine. testing that are currently in place but t