a christian country which even wears the cross in this flag. the worldwide headlines live from moscow this is a. very warm welcome. first at the head of the european commission says she is a scapegoat for the blocks extremely slow inoculation rate and laid the blame on. a correspondent. reports. 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 masks 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 combat in 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 of 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 is 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 of the venue 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 u.s. still to come here on the program staying with vaccines the kremlin dismisses the u.s. claims of shot this information as nonsense as washington accuses russian websites of spreading lies more on that in just a bit. an hour switzerland's voted to ban face coverings such as the burqa and niqab in public places the referendum or promoted by the right wing a people's party was held at just the weekend but it passed by a way firth in margin with 51 percent voting for the ban and there are several exemptions to the new rule allowing face coverings for security welfare and health reasons the band oppose all didn't mention islam directly official saying it was to stop rioters from wearing masks but a 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 would like to someone to 1st we take it out or else take it. this way that obviously i vote no we have religious freedom we have freedom of expression you can say we have freedom and then not give it. being free has been able to show our face respect and 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 with the north at them as 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 a big so this goes against my veil years as well as they also i think of switzerland some other european countries already have full or partial bans on veils in public places that includes a belgian and austria the 1st who introduced a move 10 years ago was friends with charles 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 this threat 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 the citizens between those who believe one 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 oratory 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 up. not with. that don't exist. they've called 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 world 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 as something which sets a useful limits to radical islamists and there are some who force their women behind veils who we are all is hearing. very very close to. that. it's not a low fuel to get people to you lose their. freedom . is their country all of the and d. that you have 3 and. muslim and they feel very wary in this country but i don't like to be 00 stage of the people who are extrem whatever radicalized from religion already get it 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 its flag in its national flag so i think you were quite clear about that 3 when you came to switzerland. but i want switzerland more and more. it's good for switzerland diversity is a richness you are making narrow the mind at the moment but that is the of the people. dismissed claims of spreading disinformation about us shots. it's after the u.s. state department reported on 4 russian websites supposedly trying to discredit the fine jobs in favor of sputnik. reports. the wilds changed big time over the last year but some things stay the same remember russia madelyne as 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 vaccine war because while hackings a bit passe and electing foreign presidents is a bit wild being that not vaccines are where it's at 2021 and when it became clear that american scientists might out vaccine the russian ones the kremlin bolts had no choice but to raise that disinform in heads again the emphasis on denigrating pfizer is likely due to stay just as the 1st besides putin could be to see mass use resulting in a greater potential threat dispute nick's market dominance who said to global pandemic couldn't be politicized now some would say these madness a bit late to the game i mean sputnik freeze already registered in around 40 countries many of which didn't even consider not because they'd been brainwashed by mean anti flies and 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 minus 17 degrees celsius that's now been improved to minus $25.00 while sputnik chills out 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 that rock scene when there's another $1.00 on the market without the political charm a logical right while 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 this information 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 the god back in the day the speed of the road now is a concern for some health professionals it's a new kind of global race that russia wants to lead there are concerns about its safety with questions of how much of it russia can produce now timing is everything the e.u. struggling with its vaccine rollout paid by production delays and shortages ready to help sputnik be so to block started the approval process now 5 in the us who obviously love healthy competition in a way that twitter loves pala or trump loves music and 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 raw. i'm not a murderer. the good news is that 280000 doses of the sputnik vaccine arrived from russia we need vaccinations 1st is possible under devolving more people so yes the pandemic might have changed the wild but something not the change madness that this information back in the game did you miss them. on tuesday marks exactly a year since italy became the 1st e.u. state to bring in a nationwide lockdown here on the program but we assess how the block has handled the disease so all of that after a very short break. inconvenient truth that you just can't actually get that innovation in the u.s. anymore because all the corporations that are in a position to innovate are culturing shareholders intel throwing the taxpayers and using financial leisure to mean on wall street to line their pockets. 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 that. way. what is true what is. in the world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the depths. or inmate in the shallowness. quarter past the hour here in italy as pasta 100000 deaths as it mocks one year of national lockdowns season shot to do now looks at the growing frustration all across europe what many are calling it now a botched response to the virus. it because it's a sign a decree that we can describe it say at home with the flu like of a pen the life changed forever more than 60000000 people placed into lockdown as image and see measures were taken to try and stop it 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 cause 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 wash our hands but certainly these became more and more draconian. the so now if. you're going to be. isolation and anger emerged his government to advise change direction like the wind across the continent citizens have demanded their freedoms. have. have was was. i. have. i was. happy. 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 engulfed 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 and cities are now also on we can look down and cases a surge and 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 we're isolated at home everything has changed europe has failed i am paid a long down and have suffered from the likes of freedom we have completely lost confidence in our government even as vaccines are approved and rolled out across the book there are massive issues trust has been lost. in the trust of the people who don't wash their hands but trust to be good for. west made a video or more evident. in the time of the day justin bieber being decreased. not even on monday generation we're just more than that and more than that. people. when they want someone 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 our mistakes but is anyone really listening so what do you. see paris. european parliament has. strip m.e.p. and cattle and separately cardless put him on of immunity ultimately paving the way for extradition to spain hawkins are joining us live in the studio on this daniel good to see you that the latest on now this developing situation as far as we know it this afternoon your well this is been a ticking time bomb for carlos boozer on the former president ever since he's been living in effect of self-imposed exile in belgium after the failed catalan independence referendum after a lot of legal wranglings the european parliament house passed the motion 404 the motion 248 against to waive the diplomatic immunity of carlos boozer and his associates who are behind the organization of that castle and independence referendum all 3 are of course wanted individuals in spain wanted for misuse of public funds for sedition and for rebellion there has been a legal to and fro between madrid the german legal system the bells and legal system now about us pave the way for them potentially to be extradited to madrid of course view with that referendum as illegal and those who organized that as criminals. of course is of a very different opinion this is an attack on freedom and a campaign of persecution against him and his associates he asked for a new need to be. buried in. more than that. and it's a regime. in many cases if you can pay . well up until today of course as members of the european parliament they did have diplomatic immunity from prosecution to some extent the crux of the debate focused on whether that extends to crimes they allegedly committed before getting their membership of parliament this as i said paves the way potentially for their extradition there will be more legal to and fro between belgium and spain as to when and if that happens dreads of course they will be pleased by this decision and they will view this as a 1st step in a victory that the whole issue the whole question of castle and independence a simmering. point of tension for many years between catalonia and spain to be decided on a regional ordered level as opposed to a european wide level then i mean do you think you could just give us a bit more background on this case here because i wanted to ask you to do you think madrid is actually keen to put the politician on trial and potentially set him up behind bars for god knows how long well. it's considered by many to be almost the face of the modern day castle an independence movement he was the 1st president refused to swear loyalty to give an oath to the spanish molecule the spanish constitution and it was of course his rule that laws were passed by him by his parliament that enabled this approach independence referendum to take place brain will be keen to make an example of this this is totally off the table totally unacceptable that referendum did take place it didn't complete itself in 2017 because madrid center security forces for the region and as i remember that resulted in mass protests a crackdown and clashes between pro and opponents activist protestors and the spanish security forces. we decided to sack the president vice president and other high ranking officials in the council and government. even the. proposal for a disease should. well little certainly be viewed as a blow to the castle and independence movement and its leaders scholars pujols associates a former health minister. and former regional education minister claude upon society also potentially up for extradition all 3 of peace have already said they will appeal the decision in the e.u.'s highest court the european court of justice so i think any arrest warrants and legal wranglings will have to wait until that appeal nevertheless madrid will view this as a victory they will view to make a point out of this an example out of this and it's unlikely we're going to see any conclusion to this until those legal proceedings have been have been reached and nevertheless this is something that many in europe and around the world will be watching very closely indeed all right daniel thanks very much for that these are done your hawkins' there on r.t. international it's a cross live to political analyst chris bambery joining us here now on the program on this tuesday afternoon chris thanks for joining us good to have you want to is always why do you think the e.u. lawmakers made this move i guess the question might be do you think they might fear similar separatist movements in their own constituencies. if you. secret votes it was chaired by a spanish media sandy there were 8 spanish n.e.t.'s on it all you know it's in the report it was drafted by notre nationalists located in any notaries actually my group is anti rule of use so this report is explored the ensuite the european union and i think what's important here is that really on the question of castle you know the european union high speed silence on what is going on you know frankly backing up speed this is no proposal for the 1st time a debate inside the european parliament the 4th was a foregone conclusion in the big leagues the 3 big blocks of any peace the center right and center left lot agreed to support it but in the end it only passed with 58 percent. that was much lower last than was expected and there was considerable opposition among any piece to this move it might seem there's a potential in some divisions of division among the ranks that chris as you as you were alluding to i mean so many critics are calling this a this decision a slap in the face of democracy and all those who voted him as an m.e.p. i mean do you think they have a point i think they have a very strong point and we should remember that another catalan m.e.p. or jim claris has something 13 years in jail and exactly the same charges the spanish one of these 3 the charge being rebellion which is not acceptable in any other european european country and i think the focus is going to come on what this is about spent spanish justice because many of those judges involved in this political appointees who all their positions to either the popular party or the socialist party in spain is a very unusual situation a lot of european country has political appointee to judge east take a publicized decisions in going so i think politicians this is going to come under the mud. it is work and for there is also cause a division inside spanish politics the issue in this place the coalition partners the socialists who would sit with immunity and the demarche the radical left in your party coalition who argued against and there's an increasing debate again for the 1st time not just in europe but it's been itself over what's going on in the castle and spots initially by you might recall by the imprisonment of 8 wrap up for insulting the royal family and for insulting the security forces and any other country in europe no i don't think that would happen nor rather would be sent to jail for doing that it just be accepted as pretty bad that's what rappers did was if i can just if i could just jump in chris i'm so sorry discuss such little time for a chance and i want to ask you though you you made a point there about there being a fair amount of divisional or splits among the politicians but do you think europe is united on potentially sending him to madrid for trial. no i think europe is divided on this and i think there's considerable concern in a number of european countries and regions of by what's happening castle nya and by the european stance and this i think that's the take for the case in eastern europe eastern europe but also it reaches out and nationalities scotland one goes and the people worried about the european union becoming just a club of the big countries germany and france and france in particular but chris i'm interested i'm sort of started to think there's much more support for catalan rights at this point yes i think there is growing support and that's for sure by the fact that a considerable number of or many including a couple of blocks of any peace voted against this move that's the 1st time this is happened and i think it is spreading support for council and self-determination not national independence number then a piece of this group do not support council and independence that they support the right over the catalans to determine their own future and that's an important difference.