a christian country which even wears the cross in this flag. and while mainstream media fixate this morning on the accusations by prince harry his wife meghan markle against britain's royals we are asking if it's actually masking maybe deeper issues about the queen and her family. good morning from moscow this choose to you watching r.t. with me kevin oh in 30 minutes of our latest for you and 1st then the head of the european commission saying that she's a scapegoat she feels for the block's extremely slow inoculation rate and she's laying the blame on vaccine maker astra zeneca we're going to go to berlin in our correspondent peter all over in just a 2nd we were about to go we just lost the line to ok will come but not in just a little bit then guys just checking he's not there he's not there is a peter all over can hear me now we can all right let's go on to our next story this morning sure and you know it's exactly a year now this tuesday since italy became the for. first you state to bring in a nationwide law to what a year is mean and what we've all been through and still continuing later in the program we assess how the block has handled the disease 12 months on. think we can get but you know peter all of our europe correspondent hello peter he was just telling our viewers it's been a year what a long year it's been and the. arguments up to this day in vaccines and what's happening especially in europe are only deepening this tuesday morning major standoff between brussels and astra zeneca where do we stand on the. well the e.u. commission are not happy at all with vaccine manufacturer astra zeneca it's got to do with deliveries of the jobs to the e.u. as a block they had been promised 100000000 doses of the astra zeneca vaccine in the 1st quarter of 2021 they've received around 10 percent of that 10000000 doses of the vaccine a huge shortfall in what they were expecting what they've been promised to what they've received now the e.u. commission president has said that. while she's come in for a lot of criticism her commission president found a line of come in for a lot of criticism for failings in the planning and the logistics of the new vaccine rollout but what she says is that astra zeneca have to bear some of the responsibility here 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. found a line saying that the export control mechanism may also be used again in the future what they says is a legal precedent that allows the you to stop the export of vaccines from the block to 3rd party countries when vaccine manufacturers haven't lived up to their contract we saw it used in relation to italy just last week 250000 or so doses of the astra zeneca vaccine were set to leave it on their way to australia italy said oh no chance not at all we haven't been able to. receive the vaccines we were supposed to get never mind sending ones that are in our country already on to another country they're staying here in that case the australians were quite understanding but the situation we could have in the future if that continues to happen well it could end up being a repeat of what we saw pretty much this time last year when there was a must scramble for masks and everybody was trying to outdo everybody else when it came to p.p.l. obviously that's not a situation we want to see when it's regarding vaccines we certainly don't want to see those scrambles repeated on the line though has said yes there have been problems with the way the vaccine program has be rolled out there's been problems with the way the e.u. commission has handled things. we aren't where we want to be in combating the virus we were late in granting authorization we were to optimistic about mass production and maybe we also took for granted that the doses orders would actually arrive on time we must ask ourselves why and what lessons we can draw from it. well even when you have vaccines there are still potential problems we've seen this in austria just recently where a bunch of the astra zeneca vaccine is to be suspended from being used and pulled out of vaccine centers that's after a woman died in another person was taken seriously ill following receiving the vaccine investigations underway and they said there's no initial signs to say that they're definitely linked to having received the vaccine but they've been. sure of the astra zeneca job has been pulled as a precaution now when it comes to getting vaccines into europe there may well be a another avenue that they pursue this talk of them going to the united states to ask for vaccines to be exported from the u.s. to the u. the problem is if they were to do that well it would require washington to repeal their own protectionist rules that they currently have in place that bans the export of vaccines from the u.s. so plenty of issues still ahead to try and solve the well it's been great seal the way that the vaccine program is being rolled out across the e.u. and it still has a lot of problems. in the end there eventually pay their bill of thanks for that and i will talk of a bun fight over vaccines then another. route to smalling moscow's dismissed claims of spreading dissin from ation about us shots as nonsense so for the state department reported on for russian web sites supposedly trying to discredit pfizer maternal jobs in favor of sport movie covering that saskia taylor. the wild changed big time over the last year but some things stay the same remember russia madness well that our global engagement center has identified 4 russian online platforms that are directed by russian intelligence services and spread disinformation about 2 of the vaccines that have now been approved by the f.d.a. in this country back to just in time to wage war because while hacking is a bit passe in electing foreign presidents is a bit wild not vaccines where it's at in 2021 and when it became clear that american scientists might vaccine the russian ones the kremlin bolts had no choice but to raise that disinform in head again. the emphasis on denigrating pfizer is likely due to its status as the 1st besides it wouldn't be to see mass use resulting in a greater potential threat to sputniks market dominance who said a global pandemic couldn't be politicized now some would say on these magnets a bit late to the game i mean sputnik freeze already registered in around 40 countries many of which didn't even consider pfizer not because they'd been brainwashed by mean anti pfizer notes left by undercover agents but because pfizer is logistically a much trickier vaccine it used to fall apart if it wasn't kept in specialized freezers minus 17 degrees celsius that's now been improved to minus 25 while sputnik v. chills out plus 8 and is around hof the price and then there are countries like iran which on exactly buddy buddy with the us so why buy that rock scene when there's another $1.00 on the market without the political trauma logical right well unfortunately political games and logic on friends and paranoia is alive and well it's nonsense russian special services have nothing to do with any criticism against vaccines if we treat every negative publication against the sputnik the vaccine as a result of efforts by american special services then we will go crazy because we see it every day every hour and in every anglo-saxon media the wall street journal's resurrected disinform ation for the sake of a few critical articles but just imagine what all means over madly as it would have had twin vent if i had got the onslaught of doubt criticism hate that sputnik we got back in the day the speed of the rollout is a concern for some health professionals it's a new kind of race to. russia wants to leave there are concerns about its safety with questions over how much of it russia can produce now timing is everything the e.u. struggling with this vaccine rollout paid by production delays and shortages ready to help but may be so to block started the approval process now pfizer and the us who obviously love healthy competition in a way that twitter labs pile up or trump loves music is probably looking at that and seeing a chunk of that money party just fall away never mind that it's for the good of humanity the sputnik vaccine will not go back to russia it will save lives in slovakia i would never give it up our country is a fundamental part of the european union but i cannot turn down a quality vaccine that will save our people because it's made in russia i am not a murderer you or you or your good news is that 280000 doses of the vaccine arrived from russia and we need vaccination as fast as possible under valving more people so yes the pandemic might have changed the world but some things never change madness and disinfo mation back in the game did you miss them. in other headlines this morning switzerland's voted to ban face coverings such as the burka in public places the referendum promoted by the right wing people's party was held at the weekend but passed by only wafer thin margin with 51 percent voting for the ban and there are several exemptions to the new rule 2 allowing face coverings for security weather and health reasons the proposal didn't mention islam directly officially saying it was to stop rioters from wearing masks but the top islamic groups already called the vote a dark day for muslims. so this is you know opens old wounds further expose the principle of legal inequality and sends a clear signal of exclusion to the muslim minority this is my life so i wouldn't like to someone to force it out or else he put on this way that obviously they vote no we have religious freedom we have freedom of expression you can say we have freedom and then not give it. being freeze been able to show our face respect in women's dignity heaven our own identity and therefore i do not understand the discourse of people who want to imprison women behind this veil of the north i said no to this initiative because feminist ideas are being used for something which on the contrary obstructs liberty of choice this is also borderline center for big so this goes against my value of that also i think of switzerland. some other european countries already have full or partial bans on veils in public places including belgium and austria the 1st to introduce the move 10 years ago now is france which is since repeatedly fall under a wave of criticism for violating personal liberties earlier we discussed the potential impact of this new law. it is always the same it's always the strategy of this extremist party you lost muslims and islam behind you know several laws but when we're not at death it's very very bad for us why they are continuing to use this strategy to put outside of the society and to divide citizens between the 2 bit if one does who don't believe if we imagine that we had a similar referendum in and i-slam a country like in pakistan or like in saudi arabia the question would be would you allow would you like to allow people or women wearing a bikini in public beaches for example i'm pretty sure that 95 percent or even 1009 percent of the people would vote against it we know what is democracy and we're not used to emotion on oratory i don't know. a lot of people's vote against but it's there is a lot of chits where people have never seen a woman listening. not with. that don't exist. dave hall for this a lot of people also in the villages of switzerland they are advocating they read the news and they know what is going on in other parts of the word and so they have just decided to set those limits to the cultural development of immigrants from muslim background and this is not hostile and also i think you should even consider it something which sets useful limits to radical islamists and there are some who force their women behind veils we are all listeria. very very close to. that. it's not a low fuel used to get people to lose their. country all of the deal that you have and. they feel very free but i don't like to be. close to each of the people who are expressing what is the radical shift from religion already getting from. where you can live your religion freely and the question also is why have you chosen to come to switzerland knowing very well that it's a christian country which even wears the cross in this flag in its national flag so i think you were quite clear about that 3 when you came to switzerland. but i want switzerland. it's good for diversity it's a richness you are making the mind at the moment but that is the. tuesday morning 16 past a lot of people talk about this this morning accusations by prince harry's wife make a mark against britain's royals dominating world headlines and hero reports they've also had the effect of masking why the questions just may be about the queen and her family. well you all worrying about home schooling how to pay your mortgage and how to survive in the far reaching misery of the pandemic the witnesses are at war it was one bombshell after another and his family. feud charles not taking his period of time and he said his relationship with his brother and. this was bigger than almost everything on american television one royal bombshell after another sprinkled with plenty of commentary to make sure you don't lose perspective. just relationship between the 2 so. before you even have time to switch your gaze insteps the queen queen oprah that is with the interview of the decade which i know you've watched hartsburg for magen as she bravely held back tears when she spoke of how stressful it was to stay up late googling royal protocols and there were no pats on the back for meghan claims that in return she was bullied by the racist royal family to the extent that she contemplated suicide i just didn't want to be alive anymore and also concerns and conversations about how dark his skin might be when he's born with hash tag team meghan receiving a die hard following on the former actress becoming an icon of resistance to the racist outdated and downright oppressive royals' see there are reasons the royal family might be grateful for the destruction to put it this way now nobody's really talking about that little news item about the queen lobbying for a change in law to hide public wealth right government memos found in the national archives revealed that the queen's private lawyer pressured ministers to alter a proposed legislation to prevent her majesty shareholding from being disclosed to the coma this otherwise known as the public just because of the risk of inadvertent discreet leaking to other people but basically because disclosure it's any person would be embarrassing. and what happens all the news stories about prince some group who were allegedly even low paid at the u.s. government on behalf of pay to fall geoffrey epstein well the newspapers might have moved on the f.b.i. hasn't will definitely department wants to talk to prince andrew that's why the southern district has been making efforts to communicate and to arrange interview and i can think of one other person who might be relieved to be out of the spotlight the british prime minister with a 1000000 spends on a brand new media briefing room and attempt to attract donor money to finance the 200 grand restyle of his official residence it's thanks very much for your hard work and putting your lives at risk and all that and a chance stuff but it's just a one percent pay rise for you so we can afford it so as the queen celebrate c unity and her commonwealth day speech and her grandson across the pond post-school on the royal family in front of an audience of tens of millions while still claiming he was once the media to leave him alone is seems that it's business as usual in day old blighty to keep that stiff upper lip turned a blind eye stay calm and think of england. still ahead on r t the smalling as moscow lifts coby restrictions. made a steady decline in cases we speak to the deputy mayor here for the latest on the not relation company where she sees it go and it's coming up after a short break. the world is driven by dreamers shaped by one person. who dares. thinks. we dare to ask. anyone else seemed wrong why don't we all just all. get to shape out just being educated and engaged equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. from. italy's past a 100000 covert deaths knows it marks one year of national locked arms are to show depends key looks next at the growing frustration across europe at what many see as the botched response to the virus. it was about to sign a decree that we can describe it said home with the flu like of a pen the life changed forever more than 60000000 people placed into lockdown as imagine c. measures were taken to try and stop it 19 from spreading. you're yeah. he went on i thought surely i never experienced or imagined i'd lived through something like that especially in the 1st stages there was uncertainty i didn't know what i was allowed to do or not we did not know the enemy or how to fight it but after a few weeks the whole of italy was united we were very scared because we saw really warring images especially in the news so we thought it was right to do the lockdown as rigorously as possible scenes from hospitals could have been pulled from horror movies as medical stuff desperately trying to cope with a virus that no one knew how to battle it's only may have been the 1st epicenter in europe but soon curve it was everywhere one by one countries closed their borders their shops schools parks measures were brought in at 1st it was simple things like being told essentially distance to water hearns but certainly 'd these became more and more draconian. isolation and anger and marriage does governmental advice change direction like the wind across the continent citizens demanded the freedoms. we were very scared because we saw really worrying images especially in the news so we thought it was right to do to look down as rigorously as possible everything the government tells us is the opposite of its contradictory instructions so it's a little bit complicated in the end we don't believe what they tell us. we can't do anything we need a revolution french people don't want to wake up we are like little dogs that are being taken for a walk we cannot live like this anymore that malays has grown even in gulf governments but 12 months old there was no sign of abating parts of italy back couldn't look down here in france as a nation what could i think during 6 pm and 6 am it's been in place for months well many terms and cities are now also on we can look down and pace is a surgeon again. we do not want to lock down it was very difficult financially above all we're suffering we lack work the ability to go out no more restaurants where isolated at home everything is changed europe has faith. i am a dog down and have suffered from the likes of freedom we have completely lost confidence in our government even as vaccines are approved or rolled out across the block there are massive issues trust has been lost. in the trust. but trust. for. west made. in the time of the day it's just an been decreased. not even on my degeneration. just more than i did more than. people. when they were going to some of you know this is unwritten it's a blank canvas and what's gone before us never has to hold us back if we take in really from 0 mistakes but is anyone really listening so what do you. see paris. what a long 12 months has been isn't it was small comfort if you lived here compared to other european capitals moscow's enjoyed less strict restrictions along the way. spoke to moscow's deputy mayor about the latest of the collation campaign he. right somewhere but it was sort of the let's get straight to the main point to vaccinations in march so how is it going. at the moment it's going very well or what exactly is going so well we have vaccinated more than 700000 people in moscow since the beginning of the campaign and that this means that approximately 121-5000 are vaccinated every day depending on the day of the week we always have free slots and we have made the widest range of possibilities for muscovites in order to choose a vaccination point for every one that's out of this total number 300000 are elderly we have vaccinated 93 percent of all nursing home residents within the 1st year and the 2nd dose as well as go back than to when it all started where matter year ago when corby was already in moscow how did we 1st understand that the big epidemic would begin in moscow when it was clear from the middle of february last year that it would be not only in chinese but the whole world this year with the despite the fact that we have the longest border with china we were not the 2nd country which was infected it was clear from the middle of february last year that it would be not only a chinese but the whole world issue despite the fact that we have the longest border with china we were not the 2nd country which was infected our turn was later italy and spain were the 1st new york next so we could observe how the situation might develop i thought we did have a time that we could make the best seas of this time which therefore from the beginning of march when we applied to 1st restrictive measures it is clear that moscow is a huge hope with a high population density and that we would not be able to ignore the situation where the only question was when and to what extent we would be ready for their arrival of the pandemic can it compare moscow with some metropolis for the better or for the worse. was that if we take comparable things then it could be new york you can compare us with new york city we do better or worse than new york liabilities we did well enough compared to new york and to restrict of. it is on times when the starting lockdown in march we imposed lockdown in march with the $1200.00 cases a day when you your close to $20000.00 in fact at per day but basically it did not make sense because it's not only about introducing a lockdown or what it's important to make it on time has to operate why did they close why did they change but these tactics or moscow russia chose a different one yes many countries are doing long dance but the problem is that they did not open during lockdown many european countries have chosen a tactic in which they have been close for a 2nd year and therefore any attempt to open up to at least restrictive measures medically leads to an explosive increase in cases of we had a lockdown last year one in spring after that there were no lockdown as in moscow there have been certain reasonable restrictions but despite the whole of europe from september moscow has lived a full life everything worked everything was open and gradually over these 6 months it said population immunity was formed a lot of people have already been ill do you think the 3rd wave will be comparable if we're not making predictions for the 1st 2nd and 3rd wave it all but i understand that today where ready for any scenario. here less so for better time soon a it's a nice sunny day here in moscow springs co when they come to get better a well if you want to see more what we're talking about this choose to check it out of our social media but here i'm also.