countries have expressed an interest in working with russia the vaccine companies from mislead spain france and germany have agreed to launch production if the job is authorized by the blocs medicines agency that's according to the russian side which also says it's actively working with the watchdog as part of the rolling review procedure well meanwhile the e.u. has admitted to failures in its vaccine program with the vice president for its commission saying the block is struggling but for 5 member states it's actually worse than that because they've written a letter venting their anger at what they call huge disparities in the way vaccines are being shared out raising doubts about whether the union is serving in their best interests taylor expects. trapped in a never ending vaccine nightmare the bureaucrats in brussels must be thinking mon dieu promises unreality have so epically failed to much for the european block that they've been left with no option but to apologize it is true that mistakes were made when ordering the vaccines in brussels as well as in the member states the main issue has been delivery to laze of the astra zeneca job the initial deal of 18000000 doses was slashed to just 31000000 with the recent warning promising another months long hold up all this leaves the e.u. as target of 70 percent of adults vaccinated by late summer looking like a pipe dream but it's not just getting vaccines off the production line that's the problem no it seems the problem is far closer to home because despite all its pledges to defeat covert 1000 with coordinated responses and united fronts some feel the e.u. is not living up to its core values as a tight knit family there are clues that point to so-called bazaars where additional agreements between member states and pharmaceutical companies remain what kind of bizarre well the austrian chancellor is convinced that not everyone is being transparent and certain member states are doing separate deals with pharmaceutical companies on the sly he's also annoyed that some countries like germany are picking up fact seen so far unclaimed by others and he's not the only $15.00 e.u. countries that's almost a 5th of the entire blog have the same complaint accusing brussels of not fairly dividing up the facts in pie if the system were to carry on it would continue creating an exacerbating huge disparities among member states by the summer whereby some will be able to reach herd immunity in a few weeks while others would like far behind nothing says e.u. solidarity. like feeding yourself whilst your brothers and sisters go hungry according to this uneven system multo would get more fight scenes them bald area which has a population almost 14 times launched an equation even cuts in coast scratching their heads and feeling like they've been cheated cheated out of the shot they say is our only shot at a return to normal life so we can leave behind soaring unemployment and so that people don't feel pushed to the brink and onto the streets. but it's not just knocked down fatigue it's a you fatigue apparently now sizable chunks of the blocks population feel that families image has taken a big hit over the past year proving that best failed vaccine rolled out greedy stop piling on public infighting don't when i have a vote it might be time for brussels to rethink its strategy and revive the good old idea of who for one and one for roll. germany's election year has got off to a rocky start for anglo-american the ruling christian democratic union has suffered its worst ever results and 2 kate german states with the greens and democrats maintaining their lead with more details his our europe correspondent peter odom. this will be a big wake up call or at least it should be a wake up call for the christian democratic union they've posted the worst ever historically low numbers in 2 key states in the south west of germany and book and the rhineland poll latin it now has serious talk about the vote leading to the. then being cut out of government in those 2 states once the horse trading over coalitions is finished while the christian democratic union suffered big losses the big winners were the green party quite literally in boston fortan book but certainly in rhineland collaton it in terms of putting themselves in a position to be part of a future coalition government green party leaders say that voters is showing that they're sick and tired of the status quo that's what. turns trust in the politics of democratic decisions is crumbling the reason for this is the mismanagement of the federal government during the coronavirus pandemic and especially the corruption scandals of the c.d.u. as a result the basis of trust in democratic processes as a whole is being lost to a certain extent and it will be out to rebuild it to require this trust through a strong election result and you heard it mentioned there but the c.d.u. on their bavarian says the party the christian social union the c s u they're embroiled in a big corruption scandal at the moment which has seen 3 members of parliament quit already over well what's being called pun demick profiteering over ties to them getting cash in making money out of deals for p.p. and masks. the really indecent behavior and shamelessness of individual m.p.'s has ensured that especially now in the last phase of the election campaign there really is a harsh wind blowing in the face of the campaigners that wasn't just unpleasant it put a lot of strain on the election campaign well that scandal plus growing dissatisfaction over pandemic management has seen the conservative union bloc drop to 30 percent in national polling that's the lowest they've been in a year but it's not just at the polls that people have been showing their dissatisfaction this weekend just. mark the one year anniversary of the 1st lockdown demonstrations and yet again we saw people out on the streets of germany saying they're not happy with the way the current coalition government have handled the pandemic these results in voting book and rylan poll after the vote there just the very start of what's being called the super voting here in germany that culminates with the big bundestag elections taking place in september when we know who we will know who will be the successor to uncle americal. it's been 10 years since the outbreak of war when syria hundreds of thousands of people have been killed in the conflict to millions of civilians displaced the country's economy is also being ruined and according to the u.n. half of syria's children don't know life without war. well here's what the syrian city of homs looks like after 10 years of fighting ok to it in the west of the country it saw some of the fiercest battles and enjoyed a 3 year siege government forces recaptured it in 2014 the city is currently undergoing reconstruction young syrians have also paid a heavy price so most half of those aged between $18.24 surveyed by the red cross have lost someone in the conflict with many suffering injuries and selves 2 out of 3 fled their homes and almost half lost their income most of the young syrians surveyed still struggling to meet basic needs such as food here are some 1st hand accounts from people who were forced to leave their homes. i was annoyed grade when the problem started everything was relatively normal until the 26th of november 20th 11 the next day things escalated in the village and the schools were closed that was the last day i opened the book in these 10 years have been psychologically draining everything was destroyed and we had to rebuild on top of rubble i've experienced many bad things you can't raise your emotions the physical damage was nothing compared to the emotional wounds last 10 years have passed is the crisis for in syria and 6 here we're now entering the 11th year it is heartbreaking but we managed to adept. my colleague neil harvey discuss the humanitarian crisis in syria with robert medina he's the director general of the international committee of the red cross. when did you many turn situation remains extremely dire for the vast majority of syrians today almost 75 percent of the population saw 13400000 people depend on humanitarian assistance and with carville and sanction. additional layers adding up millions of people over the past 12 months have been further pushed into poverty and hunger saw the situation is absolutely dire and we're going to hear and dark picture of a generation that has endured devastation loss and destruction with many missed minds on an opportunity those well as frustrated ambitions and dreams and those young people are the ones who have unveiled shoulder the challenge and the burden of rebuilding the country we have always had a very open and regular dialogue with the syrian authorities so that the dialogue is ongoing and everything we carry out in syria is done in full transparency with all sides. of this crisis and today we are able to make a difference on the ground because of this thanks to this dialogue and also thanks to our very strong cooperation and partnership with the syrian arab red crescent on the ground well throughout the conflict our correspondent noted ghastly ed has been covering key events including from the frontline documentary people's lives in the war torn country in a special hannover saree report he looks back at the defining moments and forward thing to where it may be headed. what i saw in syria will always stay with me it's shocking when you see a father cradling a baby killed by a bullet well when you hear the cry of a mother who's just found out that her boy's been torn apart by rebel shell this is what war looks like this is what happens when you put a gun and someone's hands and call them righteous. are you doing he asked. a lot of my dear. dad and they're not little and aren't related. we call it the syrian civil war but it never was for years syria has been bled dry by a war that was largely fed and fattened from abroad we know that now courtesy of hillary clinton's leaked diplomatic cables making the point repeatedly that the regime wants this to look like turn into sectarian violence and the very least that can be broadcast back into syria in various ways that will encourage protest as the united states we knew funded and drawn propaganda campaigns against assad millions and millions of dollars since bush was in office they got what they wanted the you very action tens of thousands of jihad this from all over the world flock to syria they said this far and then they had the gall to call it somewhat out of the civil war which they didn't want to get involved in. i have resisted calls for military action because we cannot resolve someone else's civil war through force particularly after a decade of war in iraq and afghanistan the situation profoundly changed though on august 21st when assad's government gassed to death over a 1000 people including hundreds of children the images from this massacre are sickening men women children lying in rows killed by poison gas ah yes the gas one of the absolute lose of the war hundreds died in the biggest such attack in damascus suburbs in 2013 both sides the government and the rebels blamed each other and then again and again and again and they did they it was almost always the white helmet 1st on the scene a rebel propaganda and rescue group funded by the same people who put guns and missiles in militants have just so we're clear whose side the white helmets well on they operate only in territory controlled by geodes so the kurds for example wouldn't let them anywhere near their towns with the syrian government or the syrian democratic forces for good reason this group is by all reports poison we heard at the un panel what do these that they got up to in their free time organ trafficking staged rescues and when the cameras are off a little fighting on the side. they told me that while they were not affiliated to us for a front despite the fact that their center was actually in a nurse or a front complex the notes from front headquarters were directly next door to the white house at center that i visited they told while they had an era for the ation to nostra front it was very likely that every other white holik group in syria did have affiliations in us or front were led by a nurse or a front militants and then the other situation this would be a scam a racket if you are a bunch of thugs manufactured chaos and then you say hey look chaos let's do something about it like the infamous duma chemical attack of 2018 when they accused asaad of dropping gas on a random house after he'd won the battle for no reason that makes sense shock horror at the great reason to let loose dozens of cruise missiles at syria except you know bad production. we were in the basement my mother told me that we had run out of food and wouldn't have anything to eat until tomorrow i heard noise outside somebody was shouting that we had to go to the hospital so we were there when i came in some people grabbed me and started pouring water on my hand. after almost 6 months of investigations i can prove without a doubt that the duma hospital scene was staged no fatalities occurred in the hospital older white helmets activists and people i spoke to are either in need lip or euphrates shield areas only one person was in damascus year after year i reported from syria and many of you may have followed the war but take my word for it until you see this with your own eyes you have no idea how bad things really are entire district cities demolished you'll find views like this in aleppo in their eyes here in homs in damascus and the question isn't where did you start it's what do you start with they said it would be the good guys who'd fight as had the freedom fighters but it wasn't it wasn't the democrats it wasn't the liberals it wasn't the freedom fighters it was the radicals the extremists the jihad that's who rose to power and more moderate opposition that was was crushed and catabolic. riginal of the argument was we don't know them very well when we got to know them but it was they don't have very good backgrounds i was there it wasn't the moderates who took it lib it wasn't the moderates who besieged aleppo and the rebels are pushing into aleppo again. they've regrouped according to community. intercepts. people to get back get back go. with the moderates moderates less ideologically and religiously inclined. more commercially minded and tripper nerds who saw the shiny guns that were being handed out by the pentagon lot as a tool to fight oppression but is a commodity to be sold for profit when we learned that our unit's leader was selling arms to isolate terrorists we reported it to the u.s. head of the base but after a report no measures were taken americans only ramped up the support for him it was never a secret that jarvis hijacked the revolution in syria what it was was an open secret everyone knew about it but you just didn't say it out loud otherwise you would legitimize acid's claim that he was fighting monsters terrorists and quickly became upset a spectacle in a blood soaked circus they kept saying the same thing that it was all for the good of the syrian people the united states opposes the use of violence against peaceful protesters in syria and we support the universal rights of the syrian people for the sake of the syrian people the time has come for president assad to step aside for 10 years syria has endlessly been in the headlines the president would condemn what's happening the pundits would call for more boardrooms the common sections would be filled with war more than is calling for blood here's a test a basic test they do know that selling american or european medicine to syria to this day could land you in jail ass these are called sanctions and they were strict almost all trade with syria i once reported from a cancer center for kids in aleppo and who are out me where little kids dying from perfectly treatable forms of cads or just because it's illegal si to sell them medicine when's the last time. you heard anything about these sun c.n.n. or b.b.c. this is 3 year old martha she had i counsel they could have treated it but western sanctions made getting the medicine impossible and the only hospital that specialized in cancer in aleppo in the hospital was taken by rebels and destroyed in fighting they had to amputate her but she's fine now she lives many other kids. almost over children who died of cancer have done so because of european sanctions we asked the european union and humanitarian agencies to lift the sanctions and let cancer manson in because children are suffering for all his many many sins former president donald trump had one thing going for him he would sometimes tell the truth uncharacteristic of presidents yes but with trump it was it was shameless the hell with international rules customs or even simple decency or oil. and that is what america is in syria for we're keeping the will we have the oil the oil is secure we left troops behind only for the oil i like the oil we get big deal well it's a remarkable situation one of the world's richest countries all coupon in the oil fields of one of the poorest countries in the world syria the truth these few even know what's going on anymore one of the 1st things that biden did when he came to power was launch more strikes in syria so what people have stopped being told about syria and suffered a recent poll in britain found that only a little over hof of respondents even know that the syrian war is still a thing this tragic commemoration of 10 years of this brutal conflict is being compounded by the fact that in the u.k. and throughout the west the suffering of the syrian people is being forgotten and ignored seems to be little hope for syria there is a new belief that tomorrow is going to be a better day. were gassed there with that special report for the course of the syrian war to change in september of 2015 around the time that islamic state was at the height of its power that's when the russian military put its weight behind the syrian government to help drive the group out of the country now since then russia has become an integral part of the peace process helping broker monitor last year's ceasefire agreement as well as supplying humanitarian aid for the syrian people reporting there from syria looks at russia's role in the country. limine russian air base here in fear is no more than colvin so what parker takes up a relatively small piece of lens but it helped win the whole country back how i'll show you follow me. my. i. was. takin my chipmunk that the government our forces for their defeats predicted it was a very important moment in russian abbey ation played a very important role might seem you would know the name changed was among the 1st pilots to come here back in 2015 but in 2015 things were close to the point of no return the country could have ceased to exist our forces played a crucial role in the conflict. i. to give you an understanding of how intensive the mission has been since the start in the 1st 24 hours with the help of russian navy ation the syrian army managed to take back 8 religions and push the enemy back 70 kilometers. today there are still several. russian fighter jets can fly in any weather but sound and sound are not their best friends here thousands of miles away from home each of them has their own abode to protect from climate and from spine eyes. the air bases here in syria to keep the peace but it may become a target itself and requires protection and this is just one of many components of the bases solid security umbrella but it's only your defense of this beast is capable of withstanding any attack by any likely adversary. from a mean air base that it was several tense in the middle of nowhere had its grew to a real town with streets and boulevards a church and a dream cafes and restaurants bakeries and beauty saloon it is a symbol hall for peace for syria and the reason a sense of real kong here. the base is unique in its location climatic conditions speed of deployments and the missions it carries out. but ending the war is just the 1st step in bringing live syria back to normal had a decade of crisis has left too many scars and russian support goes far beyond military victories in the last 5 years russia has helped 2000000 syrian refugees return home main roads were finally cleared and reopened russian medics have also treated around 130000 syrian citizens the defense ministry says nearly 3000 humanitarian operations delivered tons of food water medicine and basic supplies for syria's civilian population. the latest here in southwestern syria where the 1st anti-government protests erupted 10 years ago. it's go in slowly but life is beginning to fill the streets of series cities once again. serve the suburbs are no i have spend half of my life i war we've been through a lot we have become patient i feel old even though i look young people have to work harder to cover their expenses and support their families life has become more difficult when we are stronger and ready for any outcome we have to keep on living despite all the difficulties. the economic situation is there are difficult we cannot provide our children with the most basic necessities clubs not books for study i want things and see read the way they used to be. good but the war has affected everything life has gotten worse the russians played the biggest role in the crisis they helped us greatly made our lives easier during the economic blockade helped liberate territories and supplied us with wheat and rice. i remember this street in the old city of the capital damascus empty we shops and galleries shut down and fear in the air that it could be shelled at any moment and it was the same gloomy mood basically all over the country 10 years on locals still spend hours queuing for fuel or bread so many of them might jobless but they say please the skies above are now clear brief an ocean on r.t. from damascus in syria. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. slow and welcome to crossfire all things are considered i'm peter labelle using the media the biking ministration as many clear it may launch cyber attacks on russia this is a colossal mistake we tell you why and who exactly is running.

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