trials. are very welcome to all of us here are. just off to 4 pm here straight to your top stories. has suspended it's used the code. complications among people who took the job. i will be returning the story and more details on it in just a moment for meantime though the copenhagen has taken the step after one person died following a vaccination although health authorities stress that no link to the astra zeneca drug has been proven in that case or in the multiple cases of blood clots the job will be suspended for 2 weeks while an investigation is conducted earlier this week austria also suspended the job after reports of one death astra zeneca vote stands by its vaccine saying it's safe for their spokesperson confirmed the company is investigating potential adverse effects professor of molecular oncology lawrence young told us a temporary halt is the right thing to do. i think when your vaccinating very large numbers of people you've got to recognize that in the general population there are going to be a fix anyway people suffering diseases all the time and you need to be sure that when you have beds that you see any effects that you see of the vaccine or not simply because your bucks 1000 a large group of individuals who have other health conditions and so you have to look at it very very carefully and that's why you need to take a bit of a breather and investigate the possibility that the vaccine music associated with these effects as far as i i can tell some of the the e.m.a.'s already looked at this in relation to austria and as for no no specific links with the vaccine because i've done that study comparing blood clots and other and other effects in the general health healthy population should i say the normal population versus the vaccinated population so you have to look at the scenes very very carefully there's a bit of big issue hasn't there about confidence in vaccines generally and there's been there's been the big issue with the in europe about the effect of age on the effectiveness of vaccines. and of course as i say you have to investigate every serious side effect carefully but there is a big commercial dimension to all of this as well. money down the drain that's how the huge temporary covert hospitals are being described after wards revealed that most are now being closed down having treated hardly any patients and has led to questions over the government's handling of the pandemic as partridge reports. 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 mick 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. piece that they could share what and say look how rapidly we have created one thing it was rules and. china managed to create a hospital and once we even even more so i mean there was an element of basically showing of those who are trying to reassure that they were doing that and when when the government starts to do things right there is an injury you're going to get a waste of money no one asked the question well do we need to really do we need to as it turned out. as it also turned over staff them because the main issue was basically stuff and not the actual number of plates that were available so the whole thing was just. to go far as i can see why that new year medics in covert hotspots were days away from having to choose who would 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 coded 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 the collaboration are very cool reply i mean it's very cool our execution we're planning our numbers. of course are printed money and billions it's all the. non-secure all the hospitals most of which were not properly was be a complete waste of resources. that the governments have been chris was not looking at how the issue of the stall for small bits of. extra hospital facilities if you don't got the stock to go in. or the hospital closures come at the same time the government has said it cannot afford more than a one percent pay rise for n.h.s. workers nurses have launched a petition calling for a 15 percent salary hike and more than half a 1000000 have already signed the document one nurse explained what a one percent pay rise equates to. to be honest one percent is quite frankly an insult to the profession and to the n.h.s. is a home for most nurses that equates to around 3 accounts a few weeks and in many hostile sites across the pay it costs more than that to pocket costs to go to a commodity a cop we are acutely aware of this financial strain that's the brits on u.k. by the pandemic. we're not saying that we can save any more than anyone else we're just saying that we are also decent they will say what we do at the public sector workers have seen some sadly well deserved raises recently and 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 seems to be 7 years on and it's actually track system that we pay for an n.h.s. to have the 50 percent pay rise and it would still be money left in the pot after that we see nearly qualified mrs and student nurses already thinking gosh you know if i come into the right korea here we have over 400000 if they can seize in the way and that really causes patient safety issues across forwards what we really need is to fill those vacancies and to have a commitment enthusiastic an educated group and we're not going to achieve that unnecessarily paying our staff i'm afraid. well italy has launched the world's 1st hospital train as it struggles with overflowing wards doctors say it's equipped to deal with the critically ill. enough this is a medical train that has been equipped to transport and treat critically ill patients and dose intensive care 1st everybody is organized basically in the intensive care unit obviously this simply equipment with the label to do the job 7 patients can be transported in each carry so in total $21.00 patients in intensive care. again this month or so north already has to put more regions into the so-called red zone with the tightest restrictions the health minister says the train can move quickly to whichever part of the country it's needed most. hospital train was made available to reinforce the territory where there is a difficulty it's approximately service a national health service that goes where there is a problem. but italy is said to become the 1st e.u. state to make russia's sputnik b. vaccine with production due to start in july the european medicines agency is considering whether to approve the shot and if developers are actually demanding an apology after the agency's chair described the authorization process as russian roulette nevertheless italy expects to manufacture a $10000000.00 doses by years and as the bloc suffers huge shortages from western alternatives the president of the italian russian chamber of commerce told us the deal is about people not politics. 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 those great numbers were coming from fires 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 see. 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 these religious 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 the 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 antique open breakthrough in the russian interviewed over immunology is testing a drug that could stop infected people from spreading the disease ahead of the institute told us about the trials. with 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. because i think if you can hear a knock international after a very short break we'll be welcoming a german m.p. from one of the country's leading opposition parties the alternative for germany which is looking to gain ground in what's being dubbed a super election year in the country coming your way after a very short break. ironic that all the people that are in the big point bubble talk about. the fed is inflated without recognizing that they're in a bubble themselves and it's like a bubble is generally in the eye of the beholder nobody. got all these people who are involved. they can see it. germany is gearing up for the start of a super election year which kicks off with regional votes in 2 states this week and it's culminating with a general election in september and the chancellor angela merkel set to leave office towards the end of the year sunday's elections will give a 1st taste of the country's appetite for political change where we're now joined in the studio with but. the alternative for germany party taking part in these elections thank you very much for joining us here on artsy today good to have you with us. thank you very much we'll be covering a few topics for you today certainly got a bit mixed batch for you let's let's start now with the recent wave of sanctions imposed by the e.u. on moscow for russia's jailing of the opposition figure the do sanctions work and do they help or do they professional partnerships do you think in my deep opinion. only express the strong to accept his will on the weak so therefore. it's not the right approach because if you want to have. that are meant to be productive we shall have open conversation. being myself a person from the west i must ask the question sanctions always punish somebody for for his behavior the west innocent himself that's a question all the west is not in a sense himself and then why does the west dare to punish russia withing tunes as if the west were a morally higher institution i was initially important data and some might say that a over the past number of years of sanctions against russia has forced russia to internalize and at the end of the day russia has actually come out on top of because of because of those sanctions over the years that so let's bring in the idea that this story has been coming out of our sister channel. the german the build tabloid for calling its reporting on the valmy spying what's your view on that you are a journalist what is your main task. to do research and to uncover the unknown that's the task of journalists defaming it spying sorry this is ridiculous well it was earlier this month that. video agency ruptly they were notified by commerzbank that their bank accounts would be closed by the end of the spring now russia's foreign ministry has slammed the move as politically motivated how would you view that not to do it and is having the same who has happened to all of my colleagues to all m.p.'s of all parliamentary group of alternative for germany party since 2018 all our private bank accounts that we held by the spring or impost bank were closed so and this was or obviously politically motivated to harm political opposition in germany so what is it all happening with your subsidy recovery happened with the us in germany being m.p.'s invulnerable well if you talk about some sort of backlash or possible backlash to this is this weekend massive elections coming joe let's bring on the election shows you will here germany's or domestic intelligence agency wanted to place your party under surveillance though of course so far has ruled in your favor what do you think is behind this increased pressure on the a.f.p. . give the proper name the domestic intelligence services called for fossil shorts as if you were the shoulder of constitution you know. this for fossil shorts ordinated to whom to the minute minister of interior and the minister of interior belongs to what political party party gas belongs to the christian democrats that the party of chancellor merkel was so it is more than obvious that there fossil shorts is misused by drew rotten political system in order to oppress political opposition from a do you. surprise surprise and frankly coming from what's you know what's considered the bastion of democracy in europe i'm quite surprised by this it was big ben 30 years ago you know why i'm so energetic you're in your studio because i have lost my country i have lost the state i believed in i have lost democracy i was so fond of everything i have lost like like german people and we have to explain it to the whole world what has happened to former german democracy no being transformed more and more into a political system disguised after a nice for seed of democracy or i will let's let's bring in some of the criticisms here of ultimately against your party ignorance of your party claim that the f.t. has ties to fire extremists now if that's accurate is enough being done for the party to distance itself from such as i don't know fringe groups. you know if we were an exception on the german political scene i would agree with your but frankly speaking always speak frankly i've d. has in its rings neither less nor more extremists compared to society average because our party also is some kind of image of society or on the average so again this is a league asian sort of the same purpose to eliminate political opposition in drew near or at least to oppress it for the benefit of our rotten political system. maybe if i can add something there are ongoing protests in my party in the tone of her journey parted there are ongoing purchase that should teat real extremists i agree with your but that is not done because the perch also had some extremists we have had in our in our ranks and we saw them it's ok but brother this heats up members who who fight for a really independent political opposition force who are really formed of the democratic values of a democrat. and mostly these upload members are hit by our approaching so instead of kicking out the real far right extremists who harm us we usually keep out our best people what harms us or it has been let's let's bring in the idea now of sputnik v. in europe amid this ongoing covert crisis in your opinion what why is it taking so long for the e.u. or thora to rule on whether sputnik very russia's vaccine can be used i mean it's politics playing a part in this do you think you you know politics plays the 2nd role on the scene the strings are pulled from behind by big business i think it's no it's really daunting. open and a secret or so the process is being hampered of getting rich vision for splitting to be in european countries it's mostly hampered by beastliness why i saw the result of my personal analysis is that western companies manufacturers like pfizer like mordor not like us for their maker they make huge a huge amount of money by wixon ating european citizens and imagine there were some kind of competition in the. market of scenes or competition by russia now or imagine you. could find out on their own that may be the real russian vaccine because it's a classic exene is supposed to harm the holes less than the western scenes so in my opinion both points are the real reason for the u. hempel richest nations was very interesting so not just politicking but big business getting involved as well not now the 2 european countries that have approved the japanese have faced some criticism that they are undermining european unity your thoughts on that. i think your. my thoughts on that is 1st i come from business i joined politics coming from greece and was always in favor of competition switching out of competition means. it's always the police to markets always at the at the expense of the consumer and for a benefit of big business so this is a ridiculous criticism. the thing is the error in a big scene from the west is not yet finally developed this is why it causes so much harm to people and i'm not a i'm not a medicine i'm not a doctor but i. i study tell a lot about it and. the adverse effects of sputnik marks less than a vaccine and the effect is better and of course this competition should be kept out of the loop we're not going to get this in the mainstream media likewise you won't hear in the mainstream western media about the deaths and the blood clots coming from people who have been injected with the whether it's astra zeneca all pfizer all madonna you don't hear about this in the mainstream i must ask you should germany approve sputnik v. in your opinion and if so how likely is it that anglo merkel's government will give it the green light. they're so ready to have it pointed out it should be approved it should be approved all the better but on the basis of the studies that had been . implemented by russian medicine and you know what is now popping up in germany what popped up this of this week also ridiculous we have a big political scandal a bold perching mosques so whenever you look what minister of what ministry not only in bali and also in bavaria in munich the ministers who advocate most very mosques now they are found in deep corruption scandals. about kickback business by purchasing musk so that is why i call all political system rotten. become completely corrupt and that is why because in my personal view as soon as merkel's government gets enough in exchange for it. it will give green light well that is interesting and very very interesting and how does your member of the book to start from the alternative for germany party can't thank you enough for coming on the program today thank you for joining us and put a program thank you by. the concerns over the u.s. president's mental state of deep and dark reappeared who have forgotten the name of his own defense secretary it does add to a raft of strange recent incidents involving joe biden including his vice president calling foreign leaders an auction usually reserved only for the head of state dmitri reports. well wouldn't you 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 he recently referred to as that guy running that outfit over there and i want to thank the. former general keep calling him general mind 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 his 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 kemal 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 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. past the hour here in the russian capital thank you for joining us on r.t. international we are back soon with more. of. the or 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 u.s. really get that the police are allowed to lie to you the person who falsely from the past 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 isn't. welcome to the alexander show from scotland but we discussed economic recovery from the pandemic alex interview professor david blanchflower of i think the document called the hampshire to discuss whether there are any signs of a biden made to come free and the united states. bioscope is the low end folks will actually get out and stand in support of the chalky start this measure will actually have the biggest impact on child poverty of any measure since roosevelt since the new deal this is something focused on the low aims going to impact relatively poor people help states schools focused on real things so i think it's quite interesting and didn't get a single vote for a republican in the senate all of that and more to come but 1st to retreat in those and messages in the sponsor my show last week on trump and as a party over when we spoke to renationalise and i to trump republican and at martin bass pro trump republican philip says jump and what he stands for is far from over the voices of people that believe in freedom will not be silenced and all system of lies will be torn down micah says i think 4 years of biden could see him make a comeback to be honest to cheney says definitely if the democrats don't start delivering on their promises and a form the senate so that things can actually get passed then another top style demagogue is going to topple them in 202-220-2420 alan kennedy says i watched him the other night he didn't say one way or another if it ran again but still peddling the line that the election was fact utter nonsense. and i to the big entity during the last recession of over a decade ago and i professor david blanchflower was a lone voice.