a christian country which even wears the cross in this flag. very good morning from moscow this tuesday watching our international with kevin 0 in here for the next 30 minutes with the latest for you hoping stick around 1st then the head of the european commission says she's a scapegoat for the block's extremely slow inoculation rate and laid the blame firmly on the vaccine maker astra zeneca now peter oliver our europe correspondent covering it. well the e.u. commission are not happy at all with vaccine manufacture astra zeneca care it's got to do with deliveries of the jobs to the e.u. as a bloc they were told that for the 1st quarter of 2021 they'd receive 100000000 doses they have received 10000000 doses even i can do the mathematics there 90 percent is the shortfall the e.u. commission has come in for a lot of criticism over failures in logistics and planning in its vaccine program underlying the e.u. commission president though is saying that astra zeneca needs to bear some of the responsibility as well 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 the european commission president did say that we could see repeats of vaccines being blocked from leaving the european union we saw this last week when italy stopped a shipment of around 250000 doses of the astra zeneca job for heading to australia the australian trade minister called that vaccine protectionism what we don't want to see is a repeat of the well scramble we saw for resources at the beginning of the pandemic where everybody was trying to outbid everybody else when it came to mosques and p.p. and everything else on the line though has said yes there have been problems with the way the vaccine program is being 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 even when you have vaccines there's still problems in austria they've suspended the use of one of the astra zeneca john. after one woman died and another person was taken seriously ill after they received it it's until a full investigation can be carried out as it stands at the moment they say there's no direct link between them having the vaccination and becoming ill but they want to make sure that that's definitely not the case when it comes to getting the vaccines into the country though there is one other than you that the european union could be looking at not importing them from the united states but in order to do that they're going to have to convince washington to overturn their own protectionist rules that don't allow vaccines to be exported outside of the us. dollar though the picture of the year of mean time coming up very shortly to let you know about staying with vaccines the kremlin dismisses us claims a shop this information is nonsense because washington accuses russian websites of spreading lies will be covering up. for this next. switzerland voted to ban face coverings such as the burqa in public places the referendum promoted by the right wing people's party was held at the weekend but it passed only by a wife a thin margin with 51 percent voting for the bat there are several exemptions to the new rule as well allowing face coverings for security weather and health reasons the ban proposal didn't mention islam directly fishley saying it was to stop rioters from wearing masks but nonetheless as you would expect i guess a top islamic group already say well this is out of order calling 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 wife so i would like to someone to 1st we get our take on this was 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. 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 will yes they also i think of switzerland some other european countries already have full or partial burdens on veils in public places case in point belgium in austria for the 1st to introduce the move 10 years ago now with france which has since repeatedly fallen under a wave of criticism for violating personal liberties 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 us out of the society and to divide their 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 using emotion on rhetorical i don't know. a lot of people's vote against but it's there is a lot of it it shifts 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 off immigrants from muslim background and this is not hostile and also i think you should even consider it something which sets a useful limits to radical islamists and there are some who force their women behind veils we are at least hearing this. very very close to rescue and. it's not low to get fuel used to get people to lose their. twisted country all of the and deal that you have done and. and i feel very wary. but i don't like to be. close to each of the people who are extrem what if the radical left from predation already get it from me all 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 when you came to switzerland. but i want switzerland. it's good for diversity it's a richness you are making narrow the mind at the moment but that is the of the people. so many headlines so much chatter about this next story today accusations by prince harry's wife meghan markle against britain's royals dominating those headlines but as artie's nikki arran reports next may be they've also had an effect of masking wider questions about the queen and her family too. well you'll 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 one royal bombshell after another sprinkled with plenty of commentary to make sure you don't lose perspective 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. going to 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 magen 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 that's right government memos found in the national archives revealed that the queen's private lawyer pressured ministers to alter the 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. the people basically because disclosure it's any person would be embarrassing. and what happens all the news stories about prince andrew who allegedly even lobbied the u.s. government on behalf of paedophile jeffrey epstein well the newspapers might have moved on the f.b.i. hasn't the department wants to talk to prince andrew that's why the south and district has been making efforts to communicate with him we have made it clear that we'd like to communicate with him 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 spent 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 his staff but it's just a one percent pay rise for you so we can afford it so as the queen celebrates unity and her commonwealth day speech and her grandson across the pond pull scorn on the royal family in front of an audience of tens of millions while still claiming he just wants the media to leave him alone is seems that it's business as usual in day old blighty just keep that stiff upper lip turn a blind eye stay calm and think of england. moscow's dismissed claims of spreading disinformation about us shots as nonsense after the state department reported on 4 russian websites supposedly trying to discredit the pfizer jobs in favor of sputnik v. so ask a telescope a story. the wilds changed big time over the last year but some things stay the say remember a russian 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 we are aware of it we're monitoring and we are taking steps to address back a just in time to wage war because while hacking the 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 now 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 to plus 8 and is around hof the price and then there are countries like iran which own exactly buddy buddy with the us so why buy their fraxinus 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 v. 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 the. she wants to leave there are concerns about his safety with questions about 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 the way that twitter labs pile up or trump labs music is probably looking at that and saying a chunk of the 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'm not a murderer you'll hear the good news is that 280000 doses of the sputnik vaccine arrived from russia we need vaccination as fast as possible under valving more people so yes the pandemic might have changed the wald but some things never change madness and this information back in the game did you miss them. walworth talking about covert you know can any of us forget it's me you know today marks exactly 12 months since italy became the state to bring in a nationwide looked and we will generally the blogs handle the disease one year all . of the inconvenient truth that you just can't actually get that innovation in the us anymore because all the corporations that are in a position to innovate are culturing shareholders intel for. the taxpayers and using financial leisure domain on wall street to line their pockets. the world is driven by shaped by. the day or thinks. we dare to ask. it's nice post a $100000.00 deaths it marks one year of national law. next looks a growing frustration across europe what many see is a botched response to the virus. it because it's a 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 see measures were taken to try and stop covert 19 from spreading. 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 the 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. and it. isolation and anger manage his government in the finest changed direction like the wind across the continent citizens have demanded the freedoms. that. i. have i. was happy he was i i i i. i. i. happy. we were very scared because we saw really worrying images especially in the news so we thought it was right to do the lockdown 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 so governments but 12 months old there is no sign of abating parts of italy are back in lockdown here in france as a nationwide curfew between 6 pm and 6 am it's been in place for months while many terms in cities are now also all we can look down and cases a surge in again. we do not want to lock down it was very difficult financially above all were suffering we lack work the ability to go out no more restaurants we were isolated at home everything has changed europe has failed 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 bloc there are massive issues trust has been lost. in the trust of. the west. but trust you start to look for. worse made even more evident. in a time of the stress and be. not in a normal deterioration. just more than and more than. people. when they want someone you know the future is it's a blank canvas and what's gone before us never has to hold us back if we take in really from our mistakes but is anyone really listening so what do you. see paris. every country is dealt with differently the goods that it's not been too bad they have to say compared to other european capitals moscow's enjoyed less strict restrictions along the way at his own time chris spoke to moscow's deputy mayor about the latest in the not lation campaign here but it's only a bigger sort of the let's keep straight to the main point to vaccinations in moscow how is it going. at the moment it's going very well with what exactly is going so well we have vaccinated more than 700000 people in moscow since the beginning of the campaign this means that approximately 121-5000 are vaccinated every day depending on the day of the week we always have free slots we have made the widest range of possibilities for muscovites in order to choose a vaccination point for everyone out of this total number 300000 are elderly we have vaccinated 93 percent of all nursing home residents with the 1st and the 2nd doses let's go back than to when it all started when matter a year ago when corby was already in moscow how did we 1st understand that the big epidemic would begin in moscow it was clear from the middle of february last year that it would be not only chinese but the whole world this year 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 1st new york next so we could observe how the situation might develop we did have a time lag so we can make the best use of this time therefore from the beginning of march we are polite to 1st restrictive measures as 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 the only question was when and to what extent we would be ready for their arrival of the pandemic can you compare moscow with some metropolis for the better or for the worse. if we take comparable things then it could be new york you can compare us with new york did we do better or worse than new york i believe we did well enough compared to new york and to chris to have measures on time starting lockdown in march we imposed lockdown in march with $1200.00 cases per day when new york close and $20000.00 infected per day basically it did not make sense because it's not only about introducing a lockdown it's important to make it on time why did they close why did they choose the. tactic or almost gone russia's chose a different one yes many countries are doing locked and 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 reduce restrictive measures automatically leads to an explosive increase in cases we had looked at last year on these printing after that there were no locked 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 i said population immunity was formed a lot of people have already been ill do you think the 3rd wave will come when not making predictions for the 1st 2nd or 3rd wave at all i understand that today we are ready for any scenario. away from covert but it will story to tell you before we go a special 3 day mask as providing hope for a young girl whose face was severely burned in a palestinian refugee the family of 8 year old is no counting on her recovery after what she's been through so badly. we were in school my mom picked us top and we went to the market 1st there was turned down there was fire then we got separated we didn't know where we were. this. was the group. of the 4 months of therapy or doctors without borders they made this mosque they call it a 3 d. mosque that makes the skin soft and heals it up 70 percent. but when i wear the mask i feel better the doctors made it for me i used to go to the doctors to have my dressings changed then they made the mask for me now my wants are almost healed . i have this. at home i wear the mask but i don't like to wear it when i go out i feel shy when they wear it because everyone starts looking at me but the doctors told me to wear it at least 6 hours a day. i hope to wake up one day and see their faces back to normal because it's really affecting them both psychologically a pretty good for the full recovery. if fingers crossed all continues to go well for you and now i know if you want to see any more of what we talk about this choose the r.t. dot com river socials of course as usual here in moscow for now the kevin 0 in on the team starting off for the smalling about with one hour from now and it'll be afternoon if you're looking at the clock it's now coming up exactly 30 minutes past the hour of a good day. it . seemed wrong. just told. me to get to shape out just to get educated and in the game it was betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground.