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the top of the hour and you know what that means time for our team international i m donald quarter welcome to the program. spain germany france and italy have all suspended the use of the astra zeneca copa vaccine over blood blood clot concerns with all the details here s charlotte. well spain has now become the latest country in the e.u. to say it is suspending the use of the astra zeneca vaccine decision came hot on the heels of decisions made by france germany and italy on monday all saying they were holding the rollout over this particular vaccine now we know that the world health organization is to hold a meeting to discuss the issues on tuesday and we ve also heard that the european medicals agency this is the body which approves vaccines here in europe and had approved the astra zeneca vaccine is to hold an extraordinary meeting on thursday to discuss the issues now when france announced that it was suspending that vaccine that announcement was made by president marconi whose previously raised questions about the efficacy of the vaccine for older persons this is what he had to say. on . the decision which was also taken in accordance with our european policy is to suspend vaccinations with astra zeneca as a precaution hoping to resume it quickly if the opinion of the allows it so we are suspending its use from tomorrow afternoon. well they came fast in the footsteps of decisions had already been taken by island the netherlands denmark so what s the problem well originally this issue of a safety was raised off a day in denmark but since then there have also been questions raised over whether or not astra zeneca makes the people who have the job have blood clotting issues in germany they say that this is a professional law a political decision and comes after 7 individuals are said to have had that issue in the country now the world health organization has said astra zeneca is safe the european medical s agency has also said it stands by it and says that the effects outweigh the benefits of this particular vaccine and of course those who created astra zeneca are also standing by it a careful review all available safety data of more than 17000000 people vaccinated in the u.k. with covered 19 vaccine astra zeneca has shown no evidence of an increased risk of palmer and believes deep vein thrombosis or thrombocytopenia in any defined age group gender or in any particular country well this is of course a huge blow to astra zeneca but it s also a huge blow to the european union s vaccine like a vaccine that has already been my problems and described as being painfully slow there s also been new tit for tat between astra zeneca and the e.u. over the fact that the company couldn t supply the contract in demands from the e.u. as promised the dea may which is only approved for vaccines be used which include dusters and again in the e.u. is also coming under fire for not approving vaccines quicker and the rollout as it is painfully slow we re talking around 10 percent of adults across the european union the diversity one job. meanwhile the e.u. has admitted to failures in its vaccine program with the commission s vice president saying the block is struggling 6 member states have broken ranks and written a letter complaining at the huge disparities in the way vaccines are being distributed as taylor reports. trapped in a never ending vaccine nightmare the bureaucrats in brussels must be thinking mon dieu promises on reality have so epically failed to map top of the european bloc that they ve been left with no option but to apologize it is true that mistakes were made when ordering the vaccines in brussels as well as in the member states the main issue has been delivery to laze of the astra zeneca job the initial deal of 18000000 doses was slashed to just 31000000 with the recent warning promising another months long hold up all this leaves the e.u. as target of 70 percent of adults vaccinated by late summer looking like a pipe dream but it s not just getting vaccines off the production line that s the problem no it seems the problem is far closer to home because despite all its pledges to defeat covert 1000 with coordinated responses and united fronts some feel the e.u. is not living up to its core values as a tight knit family it s the recluse that point to so-called bazaars where additional agreements between member states and pharmaceutical companies remain what kind of bizarre well the austrian chancellor is convinced that not everyone is being transparent and that certain member states are doing separate deals with pharmaceutical companies on the sly he s also annoyed that some countries like germany are picking up fact seen so far unclaimed by others and he s not the only 15 e.u. countries that s almost a 5th of the entire blog have the same complaint accusing brussels of not fairly dividing up the facts in pie if the system were to carry on it would continue creating an exacerbating huge disparities among member states by the summer whereby some will be able to reach herd immunity in a few weeks while others would like far behind nothing says e.u. solidarity. like feeding you ll cells whilst your brothers and sisters go hungry according to this uneven system multo would get more fight scenes them bald area which has a population almost 14 times launched an equation even cuts in code scratching their heads and feeling like they ve been cheated cheated out of the shot they say is our only shot at a return to normal life that we can leave behind soaring unemployment and so that people don t feel pushed to the brink and onto the streets. but it s not just knocked down fatigue it s a huge apparently now sizable chunks of the blocks population feel that families image has taken a big hit over the past year proving the best failed vaccine rolled out greedy stop piling on public infighting during one of the vote is it might be time for brussels to rethink its strategy and revive the good old idea of a one on one for role more european countries have an have expressed an interest in russia sputnik vecsey according to the russian fund behind the shot a number of based companies have all agreed to launch production if the vaccine wins approval in the block my colleague sandra farmer and nicky aaron discuss the details. since the start of the pandemic the company that producing this vaccine the russian direct investment fund has been very open about its plans to cooperate with partners all across the world including those in europe but what we saw was a lot of pushback and hesitation from europe towards the idea of using a russian produced vaccine it was criticized over having a lack of data it was even called a russian propaganda tool and that was even after the scientific journal the lancet published a study showing it was over 90 percent of the active so what we re seeing now is quite a remarkable change of tack with the company revealing its broken deals with companies in germany italy france and spain let s take a listen to what the c.e.o. of the company had to say currently there are additional talks underway on boosting production in the e.u. this will allow sputnik the to be supplied to the european single market once approval is granted but the european medicines agency we are actively working with the e m a is part of the rolling review procedure in addition we and our partners are ready to start supplying those e.u. countries that independently authorized sputnik v. so we should emphasize again then here is the approval by the blocs medicines agency although not everybody seems to be ready to wait for that well that s right you re hungry and slovakia have already bought the russian shot with slovakia receiving its 1st shipments of the vaccine on monday there were no doubt come as a massive relief for the country hungary meanwhile has already started vaccinations over in france we have the mayor of nice who is a pill to the author a tease to greenlight the procurement of the for his citizens and the bavarian prime minister has also made similar appeals to the e.u. to starts considering opening itself to the possibility of using alternative vaccines be it the russian or the chinese now the e.u. has really struggled throughout this entire time there s been production glitches and. that still aids the inoculation program has been highly criticized for that so as the e.u. is faced with this colossal job 450000000 people this really comes as a positive sign i mean this quick turn around if they give the go ahead to the russian vaccine it could speed up the fight against the pandemic that it s also a diplomatic win between russia and europe as well. it s been a decade since the outbreak of the war in syria with the country still reeling from the double woes of both economic and humanitarian crises we break down that story in just about 90 seconds. is you ll be a reflection of reality. in a world transformed. what will make you feel safe. isolation community. are you going the right way or are you being so. direct. what is true what is faith. in the world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the depths. or inmate in the shallowness. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i ll be speaking to guests of the world of politics sports business i m show business i ll see you then. welcome back it s been 10 years since the outbreak of the war in syria throughout that decade hundreds of thousands of lives have been lost and millions of civilians displaced the country s economy is still in ruins and according to the according to the u.n. half of syria s children don t even know a life without war. you can see here what the war has done to syria this is the western city of holmes the site of some of the fiercest battles and a 3 year see each government forces recaptured it in 2014 and efforts to rebuild the the shattered city are now under way throughout the country young syrians have paid a heavy price throughout the conflict artie s more had covered key events often from the front line and spent time documenting people s lives in the war torn country in this special anniversary report he looks back at the defining moments and forwards to where the country may be headed. what i saw in syria will always stay with me it s shocking when you see a father cradling a baby killed by a bullet but when you hear the cry of a mother who s just found out that her boys been torn apart by rebel shell these is what war looks like lee says what happens when you put a gun in someone s hands and call them right shifts. to duty ask a. lot of lives read. that and read a little not related. we call it the syrian civil war but it never was for a year is syria has been bled dry by a war that was largely fed and fattened from abroad we knew that now courtesy of hillary clinton s leaked diplomatic cables. making the point repeatedly that the regime wants this to look like turn into sectarian violence and the very least that can be broadcast back into syria in various ways that will encourage protest as the united states we knew funded and drown propaganda campaigns against assad millions and millions of dollars since bush was in office they got what they wanted the u. very action tens of thousands of jihad this from all over the world flock to syria they said this far and then they had the gall to call it somewhat out of the civil war which they didn t want to get involved that i have resisted calls for military action because we cannot resolve someone else s civil war through force particularly after a decade of war in iraq and afghanistan. the situation profoundly changed though on august 21st when assad s government gassed to death over a 1000 people including hundreds of children. the images from this massacre are sickening. men and women children lying in rows killed by poison gas. yes the gas one of the absolute lose of the war hundreds died in the biggest such attack in damascus suburbs in 2013 both sides the government and the rebels blamed each other and then again and again and again and lated days it was almost always the white helmet 1st on the scene a rebel propaganda and rescue group funded by the same people who put guns and missiles in militants hands just so we re clear whose side the white helmets well on they operate only in territory controlled by geodes so the kurds for example wouldn t let them anywhere near their towns or with the syrian government or the syrian democratic forces for good reason this group is by all reports poison we heard at the un panel what are these that they got up to in their free time organ trafficking staged rescues and when the cameras are off a little fighting on the side. they told me that while they were not affiliated to us for a front despite the fact that their center was actually in a nurse or a front complex the notes from front headquarters were directly next door to the white house at center that i visited they told while they had an hour for the ation to muster a front it was very likely that every other white holik group in syria did have affiliations in us or front were led by a nurse or a front militants and then the other situation this would be a scam a racket if you are a bunch of thugs to manufacture chaos and then you say hey look chaos let s do something about it like the infamous duma chemical attack of 2018 when they accused asaad of dropping gas on a random house after he d won the battle for no reason that makes sense shock horror at the great reason to let loose dozens of cruise missiles at syria except you know bad production. we were in the basement my mother told me that we had run out of food and wouldn t have anything to eat until tomorrow i heard noise outside somebody was shouting that we had to go to the hospital so we were there when i came in some people grabbed me and started pouring water of my hand. after almost 6 months of investigations i can prove without a doubt that the duma hospital scene was staged no fatalities occurred in the hospital older white helmets activists and people i spoke to are either in need live or euphrates she would areas only one person was in damascus year after year i reported from syria and many of you may have followed the war but take my word for it until you see this with your own eyes you have no idea how bad things really are the entire district cities demolished you ll find views like this in aleppo in their eyes here in homs in damascus and the question isn t where did you start it s what do you start with they said it would be the good guys who d fight as had the freedom fighters but it wasn t it wasn t the democrats it wasn t the liberals it wasn t the freedom fighters it was the radicals the extremists the jihad ists who rose to power and more moderate opposition that was was crushed and cad obliged riginal of the argument was we don t know them very well when we got to know them but it was they don t have very good backgrounds i was there it wasn t the moderates who took it lib it wasn t the moderates who besieged aleppo and the rebels are pushing into aleppo again. they ve regrouped according to community. into separate. people to get back get back girls. with the moderates moderates less ideologically and religiously inclined. more commercially minded and tripper nerds who saw the shiny guns that were being handed out by the pentagon lot as a tool to fight oppression but is a commodity to be sold for profit when we learned that our unit s leader was selling arms to isolate terrorists we reported it to the u.s. head of the base but after a report new measures were taken americans only ramped up the support for him it was never a secret geodes thai jack the revolution in syria what it was was an open secret everyone knew about it but you just didn t say it out loud otherwise you would legitimize acid s claim that he was fighting monsters terrorists became absurd a spectacle in a blood soaked circus they kept saying the same thing that it was all for the good of the syrian people the united states opposes the use of violence against peaceful protesters in syria and we support the universal rights of the syrian people for the sake of the syrian people the time has come for president assad to step aside for 10 years syria has endlessly been in the headlines the president would condemn what s happening the pundits would call for more boardrooms the common sections would be filled with war more than this calling for blood here s a test a basic test they do know that selling american or european medicine to syria to this day could land you in jail ass these are called sanctions and they were strict almost all trade with syria i once reported from a cancer center for kids in aleppo and or out me were little kids dying from perfectly treatable forms of cads or just because it s illegal si to sell them medicine when s the last time. you heard anything about these sun c.n.n. or b.b.c. this is 3 year old martha she had i counsel they could have treated it but western sanctions made getting the medicine impossible and the only hospital that specialized in cancer and a level in the hospital was taken by rebels and destroyed in fighting they had to amputate her but she s fine now she lives many other kids will. almost over children who died of cancer have done so because of european sanctions we asked the european union and humanitarian agencies to lift the sanctions and let cancer manson in because children are suffering for all his many many sins former president donald trump had one thing going for him he would sometimes tell the truth uncharacteristic of presidents yes but with trump it was it was shameless the hell with international rules customs or even simple decency or oil. and that is what america is in syria for we re keeping the will we have the oil the oil the secure we left troops behind only for the oil i like the oil we re getting the oil it s a remarkable situation one of the world s richest countries all coupon in the oil fields of one of the poorest countries in the world syria the truth these few even know what s going on anymore one of the 1st things that biden did when he came to power was launch more strikes in syria so what people have stopped being told about syria and suffering a recent poll in britain found that only a little over a hot of respondents even know that the syrian war is still a thing this tragic commemoration of 10 years of this brutal conflict is being compounded by the fact that in the u.k. . and throughout the west the suffering of the syrian people is being forgotten and ignored seems to be little hope for syria there is a new belief that tomorrow is going to be a better day earlier my colleague union o neil discussed the realities of the war torn country with a panel of experts syria still at war we know that the u.s. government just bomb syria 2 weeks ago u.s. troops continue to occupy a vast swath of syria most people don t know that the u.s. is quote safeguarding the oil fields in the northeast part of syria from isis even though isis has been defeated this year we have people need to be allowed to live this is by no human rights catastrophe a huge tragedy foreign forces who are there illegally especially the united states need to leave syria as you know it s in the headlines often enough when it comes to war news but but what of those people in need do you think there s enough attention to to their problems is that are in need for more aid indeed a more concerted focus from foreign countries. well that s part of the equation it looks not forget that these sanctions against the syrian people that have been in place for leverage than these past 10 years were made in place so it s not even necessarily ate it s just the same passions so they can actually begin rebuilding their country and rebuilding their lives in fact the opposite happens happening we saw the u.k. just put additional sanctions all these sanctions do is to hurt innocent people and prevent the country from recovering people over there feel that they are being punished for taking a certain side and this war and this is so it s not going to lead anywhere and as mentioned earlier a lot of your guests you know they cannot they are now not allowed to get their own wheat their own water their own oil they have to import everything now which is we have stacking up the bill and this is not going to help at all should the u.s. be made accountable for the for the chaos i suppose it s democracy seeking a protest turned or helped turn syria into the other guests were saying being pummeled with sanctions clearly appears to be hurting the people more than the government as well. yes i mean the united states has been on a regime change course against the syrian government it s targeted it just as it did with iraq and with libya but the u.s. is using collective punishment depriving people of food and medicine in order to carry out a foreign policy objective and nuremberg trials those are characterized as work crimes and crimes against humanity so yes the u.s. must be held to account this is not simply a tragedy it s not god given this was imposed on the syrian people by u.s. government policy and its principal allies in the region from our exclusive coverage of the war in syria make sure to check out our website r.t. dot com i ll be back with more news in just about half an hour so stay tuned. chose seemed wrong. but old rules just don t hold. any object to shape out just a you can stick out to it and in again try it because betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. debate is is it fair for transforming our place to compete in women s categories and sport. as a society we have decided to categorize sports based on sex i definitely need to do not think that it s fair for athletes step on porn as pie logical males to compete in the women s category on why do we have gendered sports do you have gender categories in sport because we do treat men and women differently. every single soul beat athletes will we all have biological advantages over each other. are the thing you thought of me and i think friends are the subjects of a little affair because i love to do it. and develop confidence and belief in myself and i ve learned the value of hard work and dedication i m gonna come down a little that these men say that they feel like a woman and they will not ever know what it s like to feel the loss of a baby so many biological free home of these that they will never do they really think this is fair to me i just don t believe it to move. move. move move move. move. move. slow and welcome across talking are all things are considered i m peter limbo using the media the binding ministration has made it clear it may launch cyber attacks. on russia this is a colossal mistake we tell you why and who exactly is running the u.s. government is biden really in charge. to discuss these issues and more i m joined by my guest when these men in the house so he is a professor at the university of southeastern norway as well as off the road in.