survive the pandemic shut out of cultural sites we report from one of the occupy values and wait for all that in other news our sister channel r t h sues a top german newspaper over espionage claims regarding russian opposition figure alexina valmy. good afternoon for me kevin owen is to say she's turned one of the afternoon here in moscow whatever time is with you thank you for taking the time out of your weekend to watch the weekly heroes who are recap our top stories of the last 7 days starting with this the e.u. commission vice president has admitted the block's covert vaccination strategy is struggling amid a worsening job rollout crisis as a number of european countries now have suspended the use of the astra zeneca job this week over reports of blood clots and even death daniel hawkins. it's rather small. what could be more boring than covert surely not the very thing meant to protect you from a virus yet some are worried countries more than just one or 2 are choosing to put vaccinations with astra zeneca is job on hold concerned about potential serious side effects of officially no link has been found denmark was the 1st with norway and iceland following suit the effects snowballed with another half a dozen nations suspending at least one particular batch of $1000000.00 doses the european medicines agency is urging calm giving it a jab at the benefit of the doubt until further notice the position of the european mats and siege and sea safety committee is that the vaccines benefits continue to its risks and the vaccine can continue to be administered while investigation of jesus and from one balik advance isn't going. the world health organization is also remaining optimistic after all there's not enough doses to go around with the oxford jab if the brakes are put on this vaccine that he used targets of 70 percent of facts unaided by summer would look even more distant than today so blood clots are not for now it must remain a part of the plan even if some experts are questioning the risks people suffering diseases all the time and you need to be sure that when any of beds that you see any effects that you see are the vaccine or not simply because your next 1000 a large group of individuals who have other health conditions and so you have to look at it very very carefully and that's why you need to take a bit of a breather and investigate the possibility that the vaccine is it associated with these effects as if this new curveball with concerns over side effects wasn't enough the e.u. remains divided over its vaccine supply system with at least 5 member states submitting a complaint to top e.u. officials and all countries seem to be equal but some more equal than others you have to hear and from the book i have together with other heads of government showed the information and compared our own statistics on that distribution among e.u. member states and when you do that you notice that there mounts delivered do not correspond to the respective population numbers. but the bizarre words are still contracts but with member states and pharmaceutical companies are set to have existed according to austria malta for instance would receive 3 times as many of those as per capita as ball garia allegedly because of backroom deals struck between some governments and big pharma the e.u. says it's up to member states that aside on their own vaccine deals unless of course they get the russian vaccine but more on that later the starting point of the commission is to distribute doses based on population that member states can ask for less all more of a particular vaccine in this context and following talks between member states. it is possible that a new distribution plan is agreed with the company the vaccine shortage is increasingly looking like a drought out of around $100000000.00 astra zeneca doses supposed to be delivered just $10000000.00 have been received and the e.u. is really losing patience with being labeled the bad guy we see esther's any case delivering below 10 percent of what had been contracted for the 1st quarter we are tired of being the scapegoat it's not surprising some states are looking elsewhere to solve vaccine supply problems slovakia for one recently recording the highest death rate per 1000000 in the world as requested suppliers of russia's sport mcvie what is surprising is the reaction this decision caused with the country's health minister forming on his own sword to stop a complete collapse of the government we are an integral part of the year to congress fuse the chance to save our people only because the vaccine is made in russia i'm not a killer across the border in the czech republic with the world's 2nd highest number of cobra deaths per 1000000 we could see another minister leave his post this time for opposing the use of the sputnik job with the country's president insisting he won't wait for the e.u.'s approval while lives are lost i would like to say that the 2 biggest obstacles to delivering sputnik the to the czech republic are the minister of health and also the director of the state institute for drug control. the 2 i spoke of are to blame for the fact that our people will continue to die unnecessarily the only solution i see is the retirement of both hungary slovakia the czech republic were all convinced by the publication and peer review of data on sport mcvie in the world's top medical journals many weeks ago the e.u. has discouraged any countries from making their own decisions on the vaccines use calling it a russian roulette yet only began their own medical agency's review days ago a process which could take months they say the protein is safety critics say it's politics whatever the truth and effective mass vaccination program still seems a distant prospect meantime money down the drain is how the u.k.'s huge temporary covert hospitals were being described after it was revealed most of them are being closed down having treated only a handful of patients it's led to big questions over the government's approach to the pandemic kate partridge brought us this report in the week. 4 of england's nightingale hospitals are being closed down they've been built at a cost of 500000000 pounds to preempt a surge in the pandemic but the east london venue treated only 54 patients in the 1st wave while others so not all n.h.s. officials say they served as the nation's safety net since the very early days of the been there mick the nightingale hospitals have been on hand as the ultimate insurance policy in case existing hospital capacity was overwhelmed but many permanent hospitals were already short staffed and unable to release frontline workers to the nightingales the government felt the need to show some of the. centerpiece that they could share what. we have created noting it was rules and. china managed to create a hospital and once we even even more so i mean there was an element of basically showing of those who are trying to reassure that they were doing things and when the government starts to do things right is ensure you're going to get the waste of money because no one asked the question well do we need to really do we need to as it turned out. it also turned out we start them because the main issue was basically stopping not the actual number of plates that were available so the whole thing was just. to go far as i can see why that new year medics in covert hotspots were days away from having to choose who would be treated and who wouldn't as record coronavirus admissions forced ambulances to wait outside a n.d. and amid the surge n.h.s. workers had to resort to wearing bin bags due to a lack of personal protective equipment some doctors even received p.p.a. which had gone beyond its expiry date over 2 years the u.k. government has also set aside. cash for its much criticised covert 19 track and trace system 37000000000 pounds of taxpayers' money prompting a scathing report from a westminster spending watchdog despite the unimaginable resources throwing at this project testing trace cannot point to a measurable difference to the progress of the pandemic british experience cannot be treated by the government like an a.t.m. machine we need to see a clear plan and costs better controlled in his budget chancellery she soon x. said the government had spent over 280000000000 pounds during the pandemic over 700000 jobs have been lost and the economy has suffered its biggest drop in 300 years but tough questions are now being asked about how chunks of that 280000000000 pounds have been spent and the impact that they've had. you know what certainly is that the hospital closures come as the government says at the same time we can't afford more than a one percent pay rise for those frontline and h.s. workers nurses have launched a petition calling for a 15 percent salary hike which so far receive the support of more than half a 1000000 people while most explain to us just what a one percent pay rise looks like. to be honest one percent is quite frankly an insult to the profession and to the n.h.s. it's a home for most nurses that equates to around 3 counts of the week and in many hostile sites across the it costs more than that to park a car to go to work or market top and we are acutely aware of this financial strain that's the present u.k. by the pandemic. we're not saying that we deserve any more than anyone else we're just saying that we are also does it in the safe place what we do and i think when we talk about money and what's order or we've just seen $67000000000.00 used on it and it's extra system that we pay for an n.h.s. to house a 50 percent pay rise and it would still be money left in the pot after that we see nearly qualified nurses and student nurses already thinking gosh you know if i come into the right career here we have over 400000 nurses vacancies in the way and that really causes patient safety issues across all it. for 50 performers and employees have become squatters occupying 3 a from says for national fear that isn't a cry for help where they warn the industry can no longer survive a pandemic shut down of cultural sites forcing the country's culture minister to negotiate with them are to shell or do bensky visited one of those occupied venues in the week. i know nice was. was. the chorus of calls demanding the reopening of cultural venue's is growing allow day in front 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 hood 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 oh didn't say to say they won't leave until their demands are met them not knowing the details now we're determined to hold on until we're satisfied we do not claim the reopening at all costs it is not part of our main slogan contrary to what some media mean we want things to be reopened with social rights for all and massive plan for culture and above all the total reform of the unemployment insurance and the right to unemployment benefits guaranteed for all. the issue has even reached the government with the cultural minister paying a visit to the squatters. i went to the occupied theater audio on i understand the concerns and particularly about the aftermath of the whites here they know it why objective is to continue to protect artistic employment as much as necessary we will continue our discussions days later though and nothing has changed if the sector already hit badly by the 1st wave of the covert pandemic with performers taking to the streets to make their plight no thank you thank you. thank you who the earth 6. there is going to go to the well small private galleries have been allowed to stay open larger places such as they serve hot to remain shut protest to say that it is possible to open up cultural venues and ensure the people remain socially distanced the news of the louvre museum the also a museum the big museums in paris these a vos places where social distancing would be respected but they are closed. these are the decisions which are purely political through this there is a very clear choice of society that emerges what is essential to the market and what is not essential concerns culture it concerns all the things that nourish hope nourish reflection this is what power has in its sights through its political choices from spies' consented to have one of the most generous support systems of all tastes in the world but that system has been strained as a result of co the 19 and many claim that they have fall in through the cracks those hay say that this protest is just the start as more and more regions in france will see similar action chelate even skate oxy paris thanks to check in with this is we can well coming up as we recover more the news of the week it was a week that the governor of new york would want to forget increased calls for him to resign amid accusations of a cover up the number of deaths that were across it when the. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy to confront a shouldn't let it be an arms race in. spearing dramatic development only mostly i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical of time to sit down and talk. the trouble with donald trump is that he exploited entirely the counter unlike my legacy he was much more successful than hillary clinton at appealing to people on the level of culture and heart and national identity and all that sort of thing but as with demagogues throughout human history here exploited emotion especially dark emotions like fear and hatred and resentment to serve only his own interests not the interests of the nation at large. pressure is mounting on the governor of new york andrew cuomo to step down amid a growing scandal over cover ups of care home deaths in the pandemic the mayor of new york's a leading figure now calling on him to go. i think we've seen so many. so many troubling things that have come out just in a matter of weeks starting with the fact that thousands of people died in the nursing homes and we still don't have the truth about that and their families need and deserve the truth and we know one thing there was a purposeful coverup and that alone is unacceptable in disqualifying the state's health department had initially reported around 8000 fatalities in care homes but those who were transferred to hospital and died were excluded from the figures something deliberately maybe to make the number of casualties seem low and if those victims are added in then the real death toll was almost double that reported did acknowledge a delay in the reporting of some deaths but victims' relatives still question the counting or there is in a nursing home station in the nursing home or 23. when he we're. hearing ended my family and that he could no longer stay. in the nursing home. ways not prepared for any kind of health care american seen and by this. right there governors. who cares where they die it doesn't matter because it points to one where where where you know errors in their policies. why. we spoke to 2 women who lost parents to coronavirus in the nursing facilities and i've set up now an advocacy group called voices to see is a place a care home deaths in their view a not a priority for politicians. my father is still among the uncounted because he was released from a nursing home rehabilitation center after next surgery knowingly with the virus he was labeled a covert suspect in his nursing home paperwork and made him test him they didn't treat him they didn't tell us and unfortunately we were the ones when we got him home that had to put him in a hospital when he came home he was in terrible condition and he collapsed on the driveway exposing my whole family to coal bed and we all got sick shortly there after. my father unfortunately lost his life on april 14th after being on a ventilator for almost 2 weeks and it was purely preventable he was only 76 years old he was a healthy man and it was a pure cova death the facility failed her. and the state failed her. i think that right now at least many of the deaths that happen in nursing homes were because of a mandate that almost but in that ortiz facilities to take in patients when they were not equipped to take care of them so it's a combination of both my mother's for so that he was reporting 40 deaths back in april when my mother died and she was not part of that number because she died at the hospital so when months and months continue to pass and it stayed up 40 we knew that that number could not be correct i mean you're not going to tell me that 40 people die on a one shot and then no one dies for months so when the number actually came out we were we were basically you know we were found to be true that it was not right. to challenge him he's filed a lawsuit gives build them over claims by the tabloid the maid it's reporter you guessed it spa the kremlin. picks up the thread. on the face of it a sin sation old story it's got all the words 7 to draw or read to read spawn i public enemy number one russia but a closer look and not sensation apart basically daniel lined up an r.t. to each employee claims he was essentially used as a spy for the channel and then all the information he was gathering on kremlin critic alex anan found me when he was recuperating in a bill and clinic for legit poisoning was being put straight into the hands of russian president vladimir putin since ational right wrong not quite because the evidence seems more taken from a manual called john of his and what one inspiring want to one as proof screenshots of a chat with editors i'll tell you these chats a common practice that the easiest way for reporters producers cameraman tech guys to coordinate and also tell you that pretty boring filled with the logistical stuff and despite claims his chart was pretty boring too yes he was also to go inside the shower take clinic one found he was cooled investigative journalism it's called trying to get ahead of other outlets so that you get the scoop in fact build was one of the most active moles inside the hospital as the head of our to do each reminds us to accuse us of spying and at the same time to post images of the every little step to develop he makes including pictures of his garden to host a word if russian intelligence wanted to get any additional information they would buy a subscription to build plants and of course we want to remind our colleagues of german that you slay sion that for now at least protect the media and lowering it to collect information and metis that are considered to be of public interest so bill does that it's rule john as it's trying to get the latest on a top developing story r.t. does that it's more than a tinge of hypocrisy that claim that this work. group was filled with nefarious spying requests is also undermined by the fact that when he questions whether getting a hidden camera recording of what's inside toward one value was rumored to be which is on german military and is appropriate his boss writes clearly no i don't think so not exactly the most ruthless of spying attempts than evidence number 2 is the video agency ruptly 247 outside the shower take clinic yes that's true in fact for a long time it was a 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