a quote inclusive vision we put that up for debate. warning from moscow this is a loan from march kevin owen here at r t h q for the next 30 minutes with our latest for you this 1st hundreds of millions of pounds wasted and barely anyone treated that's the story of you can merge and see hospitals for covert patients due to be closed this month a partridge that reports on the latest scandal over the government's handling of a pandemic. 4 of england's nightingale hospitals are being closed down they've been built at a cost of 500000000 pounds to preempt a surge in the pandemic but the east london venue treated only 54 patients in the 1st wave while others so not all n.h.s. officials say they served as the nation's safety net since the very early days of the been there make the nightingale hospitals have been on hand as the ultimate insurance policy in case existing hospital capacity was overwhelmed but many permanent hospitals were already short staffed and unable to release frontline workers to the nightingales the government felt the need to show some of the. centerpiece that they could share walk and say look how rapidly we have created one thing it was rules and another which i know managed to create a hospital and once we've even even more so i mean there's an element of basically showing of those who are trying to reassure that they were doing and why and when the government starts to do things right now is injury you're going to get the waste of money because no one asked the question well do we need to really do we need to as it turned out. it also turned out we start them because the main issue was basically stuff and not the actual number of plates that were available so the whole thing was just. for the government as i can see why that new year medics in covert hotspots were days away from having to choose who should be treated and who wouldn't as record coronavirus admissions forced ambulances to wait outside a n.d. and amid the surge n.h.s. workers had to resort to wearing bin bags due to a lack of personal protective equipment some doctors even received p.p.a. which had gone beyond its expiry date over 2 years the u.k. government has also set aside. cashpoints much criticized code 19 track and trace system 37 1000000000 pounds of taxpayers' money prompting a scathing report from a westminster spending watchdog despite the unimaginable resources throwing at this project testing trace cannot point to a measurable difference to the progress of the pandemic british tech space cannot be treated by the government like an a.t.m. machine we need to see a clear plan and costs better controlled in his budget chancellery she soon x. said the government had spent over 280000000000 pounds during the pandemic over 700000 jobs have been lost and the economy has suffered its biggest drop in 300 he is but tough questions are now being asked about how chunks of that 280000000000 pounds have been spent and the impact that they've had i think a collaboration or very cool reply i mean it sounds very cool our execution we're planning our numbers the breaks of course are printed money and big spurts all these. nice to go hospitals most of which were not properly was being a complete waste of resources. that the government's a big cross was not looking at how much the issue of the soft resources because there's no. extra hospital facilities if you haven't got the start to going. the painful bit here for a lot of front line staff is the hospital closure comes after ministers announce that the current afford more than one percent pay rise for those n.h.s. key workers is a bit on the front lawn of the so long now nurses have launched a petition calling for a 15 percent salary hike so way off they add they're grateful for that public clapping which has become a symbol of gratitude to n.h.s. workers but they say that i'm going to pay the bills more than half a $1000000.00 have already signed a petition or nurse explained what just a one percent pay rise means. to be honest one percent is quite frankly an insult to the profession and to the n.h.s. it's a home for most nurses that equates to around 3 counts a few weeks and in many hostile sites across the it costs more than that to park your car to go to work or park your car and we are acutely aware of its financial strain that's the present u.k.b.a. the pandemic. we're not saying that we deserve any more than anyone else we're just saying that we are also do so they will say what we do and the public sector workers have seen some say well deserved raises recently we've been left out of that again as an n.h.s. and i think when we talk about money and what's affordable we've just seen sushi 7000000000 used on it in its extra system that we pay for an n.h.s. to how 50 percent pay rise and it would still be money left in the pot after that we see nearly qualified nurses and student nurses already thinking gosh you know if i come into the right career here we have over 400000 nurses vacancies in the day and that really causes patient safety issues across all that what we really need is to fill those vacancies and to have a committed and enthusiastic and educated workforce and we're not going to achieve that unnecessarily. afraid. some user progress in italy set to become the 1st to you statement to make rushes sputnik the vaccine with the launch of production slated for july the shot still waiting for approval though from the european medicals agency with developers demanding an apology 2 of his chair branded authorization russian roulette anyway italy expects to manufacture $10000000.00 doses by the end of the year as the blocks of his huge shortages for western alternatives the president of the italian russian chamber of commerce told us more about this deal it's more about people are not about politics he said. as for public opinion leaving aside political views. everyone is very much looking forward to the vaccine people are waiting for doses not for statements though a great number were coming from pfizer and astra zeneca according to the promises all italians were to be vaccinated by june but unfortunately we can see that it won't be the case therefore there are great hopes for sputnik v. i wouldn't say that the reason it's widely anticipated is because it's a russian vaccine people want to get any vaccine and certainly one with a reasonable price and easily just sticks and sputnik the meets those expectations i believe that's been in the perfectly fits into the logic of the made with russia label let me give you a specific example the russian direct investment fund was looking for european pharmaceutical company incorporation with which you could produce a vaccine in europe as the russian italian chamber of commerce we couldn't sit idle we examined all the information concerning the vaccine i personally was one of the 1st foreigners inoculated with sputnik v. we understand there is no life for development without a vaccine and geopolitics shouldn't be a priority all the focus should be put on people's health and business. and the job innovation is not the only russian nanticoke a breakthrough to tell you about either the russian institute of immunology is testing the 1st drug now it says that stops the virus spreading in people already suffering from the disease the head of the institute told us about those trials. the clinical trials of mere 19 kicked off at the beginning of this year at the moment the 1st phase concerning its safety is coming to a close and we expect it to be completed by the middle of march and then as part of the 2nd phase we will proceed to the examination of its efficacy on patients the medicine is designed to stop a virus from replicating itself it's clear already that this drug will be administered in an inhaled form as for the period of effectiveness it's hard to say right now certainly the earlier an infected person takes the medicine the better it will work however given its immediate focus on blocking the replication of the virus we believe it can be effective at any stage of illness anyway let's wait until we get the results of the 2nd face. a bit more positive news as the use of sputnik the helps bring down the number of russia's coronavirus cases can report lifting some of the remaining code restrictions to moscow's no ending its stay at home advice for people over 65 a muscle collation campaigns with underway his since december we talked about the countries and covert measures now they fit more general into the global picture with the w.h.o. representative to russia. oh there has been a very good combination of recommendations are restrictions which are not to love at the house although in some regions they were more close to that. and i would say and of various of people but this is very critical at the moment to maintain their innocence and application of the set of measures are the most important thing is to be moderate to monitor the situation and be flexible also in case of need to be flexible of returning some of the restrictions public health measures we refer to call them and our lack any i have seen in some countries a surge of cases in a gross of cases so we have very cautious everywhere oh nobody's safe until everybody saves stronger torics even coming from any place my power of the trust of the people so it is very important to rollout to go with a vaccination to encourage people especially the priority groups health care workers and elderly to get the vaccine and there are only together we can win this battle oh well tell her i'm ization did not reply and vaccination passports as evidence to give privileges or enable travel however goods data nation are extremely important and the countries are encouraged to actually have information systems actually nagel them to long term vaccination. meantime half of all care home workers in france are refusing to get the covert job despite having to work closely of course with the elderly or high risk from the disease there are concerns about the shot safety as well as mistrust of the government behind the occupation dr coming up we're going to talk about that spit later in the program. to see because malta national unity lever is dropping the word normal from all skincare products the u.k. based firm says the word make some customers feel excluded we know that removing normal from our products and packaging will not fix the problem alone but it's an important step forward the company's international survey then found more than 2 in 3 people thought using the word normal negative impact you believe is also ending excessive editing of photographs of models in its advertising but all that said there's been a backlash against the moves so sick of woke n'est taken to p.c. extremes normal means not only and not dry do we have to turn every term on the planet into included a t p c i've never been able to use normal shampoo but at least i know that it isn't suitable for my dry and hair thank god i have always felt marginalized with my dry scalp every time in the shampoo aisle i would have to seek out a safe space because of the pain and anguish caused by seeing the word normal and my inability to ever have normal hair you know leverage just saved my life your liver will drop the word normal from beauty brother gets years after decades of sellin fairness creams in the india it is eve is trying to rebuild its reputation after global criticism last year over its marketing of skin whitening products in asia we discussed so it's better than the word normal than with guests. there's no way ordinary people think this in those kinds of numbers when it comes to the word normal the other thing about using models and change in the shots oh yea i agree with but they normal thing this is purely them overreacting to the trouble they landed themselves in when they were doing the discussed in practice of the lightning chremes this is what's happening this is another massive massive company basically playing to the gallery a virtue signaling to those kinds of people normal means it's the norm it's fun normal not necessarily for greasy ed what do you want to confuse what is wrong with these people what planet do they live on i think it's important that they are talking about this and they are going to do their best because there is it's needed we need to keep pushing change in the industry i mean you know body and and we have 31 of the most inclusive agencies and i don't think enough times it's going enough. how that can haynes inclusive and stay away from normal so i have to agree and then i mean we we've recently hired a model who went x. then she has to be scarring she actually you know i think. she's doing very well now a fee is going to be shocking to say this is imposed and this is what we should be seeing and i think removing normal is important for not a people have asked so i had read. the that the idea of nor why i would agree with you that if somebody has got a disability or whatever could do not understand what they call the motos or take on board completely but it's the word normal when it comes to things like shampoo for a normal hair well it is are the normal greasy or dry or cracked or damaged this is marketed this is a bit like we're going to change tomato sauce so it's going to be green we're going to turn. salad cream into a different color we're going to start making solid cream this is just a pathetic attempt to grab more market share and also i cannot i disagree have during our standards and i think the simply reading the article had to spread all is no it doesn't i disagree i think doing what they're doing what they're talking about removing almost stopping editing and saying especially on social media this is you know there is a definite trend against that and i think what they are doing is a step in the right direction it is not the be all and end do it that it is forward so i think it's an indication i don't think they're necessarily doing it to ground press i think it's needed they should know by using photoshop or whatever clever new techniques have got to alter the images of women and men in their avatars and i would agree with that entirely on the father of 2 daughters and i see body image and being proud of your body whatever your body is he's the right approach so are not arguing that i'm arguing the word normal you're confusing the true they know they're doing this purely to get market share and they're doing it purely because of their offensive products that they had before 10000 people i'd love to see the steps of let's see the demographic of the 10000 people that they asked them whether they confuse the question ability or being confused or not my friend where you think it's about normal imagery would talk a mother would normal i don't object to any of the rest of it but the word normal it's work nonsense it's all done for marketing and you shouldn't be falling for it because they're making a movie. this is art international ahead this thursday morning for more than doubts grow over president biden's mental health as it gets the name of this pentagon chief. ironic that all the people who are in the big point by. you know talk about the other bubbles that the fed is inflated without recognizing that they're in a bubble themselves i mean it's like a bubble is generally in the eye of the beholder nobody can tell their own bubble and so you've got all these people who are involved in the crypto bubble they can see it. is you'll media a reflection of reality. in a world transformed. what will make you feel safe from. the isolation community. are you going the right way or are you being that. direct. what is true what is faith. in the world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the depths. or in maybe in the shallows. mornings like the 19 past the hour now next concerns over the u.s. president's mental state and deepened after a pitiful go in the name of his own defense secretary to be too public repos. well one should know it turns out sleepy joe biden is well still sleepy and it's becoming increasingly hard to ignore which is probably why half of americans don't think he is mentally fit to be president according to a recent rasmussen poll and it's not exactly surprising it's been 7 weeks since his inauguration and it's hard to shake the feeling that he's being hidden from the world in a basement and when he is released into the public chaos ensues he forgets the names of people he himself appointed like defense secretary lloyd austin there who we recently referred to as that guy running that outfit over there and i want to thank the. former generally keep calling him general my mind you know the guy who runs out of town for you know his handlers panic any time anybody might god forbid ask him a question and he constantly loses his train of thought while reading from a teleprompter it's been 2 months and he has yet to give a news conference or answer any meaningful question but one time he did agree to some live questions the white house instantly interrupted the feed and it's not like the media is even giving him a hard time with the questions it's not like with trump or they were doing their journalistic duty by constantly grilling him about his mental health the russian conspiracy theories and other frankly absurd allegations and criticisms no joe biden gets questions like one will there be a 1st white house feline how are the dogs doing how is it living in the white house and even some of these questions get delegated to this press secretary jen circle back saki the question is who the hell is running the white house while apparently it's kemal harris you know the one that barely got any votes during her presidential run got completely demolished during the democratic debates. and was later tacked on to biden's bill despite nobody liking her apparently while biden is taking his daytime nap cabala is the one who's talking to foreign leaders deliberating middle east responses and sanctions some are even suspecting a secret transition period has already started so americans are in kind of a rough spot on who to be following on the one hand you have a senile sleepy president locked up in a basement and on the other hand you have a woman who really nobody likes who was in the white house really on a technicality gotta love democracy. just half of french home stuff so the prepared to get the covert job with distrust of vaccines and government being cited shiela dubinsky is all much story today. they are all the workers on one of the front lines battling against it caring for patients many of which are vulnerable in residential care homes across france homes which have been some of the hardest hit by the virus official figures say that around $25000.00 people in care homes have died as a result of the pandemic so you'd think their carers would be lining up to get the vaccine but that's not the case. many health workers are afraid to be vaccinated we have lost a confidence in the government over the vaccine process people are concerned about side effects so so want to wait and get more information. front is known for having a high level of vaccine skepticism but amongst health workers the rate is even higher the concern over low uptake is even prompted the health minister to intervene health care workers who get vaccinated is not only protect themselves but also patients and residents i ask you fuel cells your colleagues with the people of france if you're not you're vaccinated quickly is a sponsor collective security and the capacity for health system to function but. says the government has been partly responsible as it's locked clarity over the vaccines doubts of also been fueled by president mccord who claimed the oxford astra zeneca short was quasi effective for older persons. health workers who want to be vaccinated referred to pfizer shart because we're told it's 90 percent a factor but their stress any of accent is on the 70 percent effective so it's understandable that medics and the rest of the population when the most effective option but there has been so much cover. from ation about vaccines so now we're really confused this is another reason warehouse workers don't want to get inoculated. other concerns have been raised around the side effects from the astra zeneca jab last month around $150.00 health workers who received it reported suffering off to it from high fever that was temporary and not apparently dangerous but it's enough to make some people think twice the situation is now so bad that the national academy of medicine is recommending making the move into vaccine compulsory for health workers while some talk about conspiracy theories is the reason that so many are refusing to be vaccinated the c g t union says this is more of a problem with communication or a lack of it health workers including care workers want up to date medical information to make up their minds. health workers to selfish they're not they're reluctant to take the vaccine but they should not be stigmatized for that they want to protect the people they care for the patients and care home residents as the vaccination program continues to be rolled out the government is attempting to persuade health workers that having the job is good for them and of course with those that they care for if that doesn't succeed the government may have to take things a step further and make the vaccine compulsory geology auty paris. developing in spain doctors in madrid have suspended a definite strike for better conditions after the head of the local government quit over a related dispute it's complicated but medics are furious that political shakeups basically are being prioritized they say over the health care crisis. it's been shown that politics is heading in a different direction than health care professionals this is a force postponement due to the political earthquake experience today and that leaves the doctors without any interlocutor facing a possible negotiation doctors especially the strike after only a day of protests where they held signs demanding pay for overtime abroad these faceless mannequins you can see the 2 people that they wouldn't get care if conditions don't improve and they say authorities are failing to evening gaijin talks. that is. still woodside welcome to the limit the situation is hopeless when in full medical vulgus has to take medication to go to book and never feels dr need psychological help to keep walking due to an endless stream of cases that are simply impossible to deal with as. most of us come to work with the feeling of exactly every day because we don't know what who are going to face we open the agenda and find 40 appointments at least best case scenario this number increases during the morning because we receive new appointments from patients by phone most doctors have to arrive in our work early because of the stress to be able to finish some of them leave 2 hours late and of course this hours are not paid because they are not recognised. medics are furious the government is claiming it cares but in practice they say it's doing little to help frontline workers. and on the record for homeland we have a promised there would be more attention and primary health care with most south and funding the promises remain just wards the government departments sophist incivility on to each other but the situation has not changed in any way for several years and this is especially bad since september if we don't get people to listen to us there will probably be no primary health care doctors in the province of madrid's in a few months because those who can now will distill exhausted the day will no longer be able to do their jobs if they don't fix this if they don't make an urgent plan economic and organizational primary care will disappear where and then danger specious. to keep an eye on that story and keep an eye on what we're talking about as well and off you go camera cause if you download our breaking news as it comes straight your mobile device 1st way things are looking so far from a cover though in the morning to have a safe and profitable day. there are tactics that can be used to get innocent people to confess to crimes they didn't commit i don't even think people in the us really get that the police are allowed to lie to you the person who falsely fast actually came to believe the lie that they were told about their own behavior once a false confession is taken the case is closed and nobody really can tell the difference between a good confession and one that is a. anyone else seems wrong. just don't call. me. yet to shape out just days after. and in the game because betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy to from day shouldn't let it be an arms race is often spearing dramatic to follow the only really i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. welcome to the alexander show from scotland where we discuss economic recovery from the prime segment alex interview professor david blanchflower of ivy league dot macaulay's new hampshire to discuss whether there are any signs of a biden made to.