espionage claims regarding the russian opposition figure alexina. is just gone 6 o'clock you're watching the. e.u. commission vice president is committed the blocks vaccination policies struggling and amid the crisis a number of european countries have also suspended the use of the astra zeneca jab over fears of bad side effects hawkins has the story. what could be more boring than covert surely not the very thing meant to protect you from the virus yet some are worried countries more than just one or 2 of choosing to put vaccinations with astra zeneca as job on hold concerned about potential serious side effects are officially no link has been found denmark was the 1st with norway and iceland following suit the effects snowballed with another half a dozen nations suspending at least one particular batch of $1000000.00 doses the european medicines agency is urging calm giving it a jab at the benefit of the doubt until further notice the position of the european mats and siege and sea safety committee is that the vaccines benefits continue to risks and the vaccine can continue to be administered while investigation of jesus and thrown one balik advance isn't going. the world health organization is also remaining optimistic after all there's not enough doses to go around with the oxford jab if the brakes are put on this vaccine that you use target of 70 percent of vaccinated by summer would look even more distant than today so blood clots are not for now it must remain a part of the plan even if some experts question in the risks people suffering diseases all the time and you need to be sure that where any of beds that you see any effects that you see of the vaccine are not simply because your marks 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 is it associated with these effects as if this new curveball with concerns over side effects wasn't enough the e.u. remains divided over its vaccine supply system with at least 5 member states submitting a complaint to top e.u. officials that all countries seem to be equal but some more equal than others you have to hear and from the book i have together with other heads of government showed the information and compared our own statistics on the distribution among e.u. member states and when you do that you notice that their mounts delivered do not correspond to the respective population numbers if there is such a bizarre word distal contract that would member states and pharmaceutical companies are certain have existed according to austria malta for instance would receive 3 times as many of those as per capita as ball garia and all allegedly because of backroom deals struck between some governments and big pharma the e.u. says it's up to member states that aside on their own vaccine deals unless of course they get the russian vaccine but more on that later the starting point of the commission is to distribute doses based on population that member states can ask for less all more of a particular vaccine in this context and following talks between member states. it is possible that a new distribution plan is agreed with the company the vaccine shortage is increasingly looking like a drought out of around $100000000.00 astra zeneca doses supposed to be delivered just $10000000.00 have been received and the e.u. is really losing patience with being labeled the bad guy 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 it's not surprising some states are looking elsewhere to solve vaccine supply problems slovakia for one recently recording the highest death rate per 1000000 in the world as requested surprise of russia's sport mcvie what is surprising is the reaction is decision caused with the country's health minister forming on his own sword to stop a complete collapse of the government we are an integral part of the year to congress use the chance to save our people only because the vaccine is made in russia and i'm not a killer across the border in the czech republic with the world's 2nd highest number of cobra deaths per 1000000 we could see another minister leave his post this time for opposing the use of the sputnik job with the country's president insisting he won't wait for the e.u. is approval while lives are lost i would like to say that the 2 biggest obstacles to delivering sputnik the to the czech republic are the minister of health and also the director of the state institute for drug control the 2 i spoke of are to blame for the fact that our people will continue to die unnecessarily the only solution i see is the retirement of both. hungary slovakia the czech republic were all convinced by the publication and peer review of drugs or of sport mcvie in the world's top medical journals many weeks ago the e.u. has discouraged any countries from making their own decisions on the vaccines use calling it a russian roulette yet only began their own medical agency's review days ago a process which could take months they say their protein is safety critics say it's politics whatever the truth and effective mass vaccination program still seems a distant prospect. meanwhile money down the drain mrs haggerty ukase temporary cave hospitals have been described after it was revealed most are now being closed down having treated only a handful of patients it's led to questions today over the government's approach to the pandemic as a partridge now reports 4 of england's nightingale hospitals are being closed down they being built at a cost of $500000000.00 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 says 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 are unable to release frontline workers to the nightingales the government felt the need to show some. sort of dubious that they could share what. created noting it was rules and. i know managed to create a hospital and once we even even more so i mean there's an element of that is that the showing of those who try to reassure them they were doing and when the government's done. do you think it. is an injury you were going to get. was no one asked the question well we didn't really do need to as it turned out. as it also turned. them because the main issue was this at least not the actual number of levels of the whole thing was just. to go well as i can see while 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 indie 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 cash for its much criticised covert 19 track and trace system 37000000000 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 experience 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 years but tough questions are now being asked about how chunks of that 280000000000 pounds have been spent and the impact that they've had or the hospital closures to come as the government says it can't afford more than a one percent pay rise for n.h.s. workers nurses have launched a petition calling for a 15 percent rise which is so far received the support of more than half a 1000000 people one nurse explained to us what a bomb percent increase actually 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 pounds if you're weak and in many hostile sites across the u.k. it costs more than that to park your car to go to work or market car we are acutely aware of its financial strain that's the present u.k. by the pandemic. we're not saying that we deserve any more than anyone else we're just saying that we are also deserving of save face what we do and i think what we talk about money and what support or we've just seen $37000000000.00 used on its extra tray system that we pay for an n.h.s. to house to 50 percent pay rise and it would still be money left in the doctor after that we'll 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 forward. more than 50 performers and employees have become squatters occupying 3 of france's 4 national theatres and a cry for help they will move the industry can no longer survive the pandemic shut down of coal for sites and if they are pressured the country's minister of culture to talk with them reporting there from france is shown to be to ski. i know nice was. the chorus of calls demanding the reopening of cultural venue's is growing allow day in france but with no clear end date in sight to the closure of theaters concert hall cinema museums so more taking more drastic measures over the last week 3 of france's 4 national theatres including this one behind me have been occupied by protesters it is true that every day several times a day we take another place a new theatre a new national stage is occupied in this way with multiply in the case of resistance to make a claim so good so we've all people of the o.t. now for a week and for that he says is a place of residence the odeon is a symbolic place it was occupied in the $968.00 process there are already struggles that have been expressed in this place in fact it was the base to signal the alarm of the cultural catastrophe which is taking place protesters who set up shop here i think though didn't get to say they won't leave until their demands are met the macnow wanted that now we're determined to hold on until we're satisfied we do not claim the reopening at all costs it is not part of our main slogan contrary to what some media mean we want things to be reopened with social rights for all and massive plan for culture and above all the total reform of the unemployment insurance and the right to unemployment benefits guaranteed for all. the issue has even reached the the government with the cultural minister paying a visit to the squatters. i went to the occupied theater audio on i understand the concerns in particular ball the aftermath of the whites here they know it why objective is to continue to protect artistic employment as much as necessary we will continue our discussions days later though and nothing has changed if the sector already hit badly by the 1st wave of the covert pandemic with performers taking to the streets to make their plight no thank you thank you. thank you. the owner. 6 6 there is an anger too that while small private galleries have been allowed to stay open larger places such as they serve how to remain shut protesters say that it is possible to open up cultural venues and ensure the people remain socially distanced the news of the louvre museum the also a museum the big museums in paris these a vast places where social distancing would be respected but they are closed. these are the decisions which are purely political through this there is a very clear choice of society that emerges what is essential to the market and what is not essential concerns culture it concerns all the things that nourish hope nourish reflection this is what power has in its sights through its political choices from spies' conceded to one of the most generous support systems of all states in the world but that system has been strained as a result of kobe 19 and many claim that they have 4 legs through the cracks those hey say that this protest is just the start as more and more regions in france will see similar action chelate even skate oxy paris still ahead on the weekly cool right for the governor of new york to resign amid accusations of a cover up debts and can do to the coronavirus will be back with this story with others to just after this break. the world is driven by a dream shaped by one person. the day or thinks. we dare to ask. the trouble with donald trump is that he exploited entirely the counter unlike my legacy he was much more successful than hillary clinton at appealing to people on the level of culture and heart and national identity and all that sort of thing but it looks as with demagogues throughout human history here exploited emotion especially dark emotions like fear and hatred and resentment to serve only his own interests not the interests of the nation at large. welcome back to the waking hour pressure is mounting on the governor of new york to step down amid a growing scandal over the cover up of related deaths in care homes during the pandemic among those calling for him to quit is the city's mess. i think we've seen so many. so many troubling things that have come out just in a matter of weeks starting with the fact that thousands of people died in the nursing homes and we still don't have the truth about that and their families need and deserve the truth and we know one thing there was a purposeful coverup and that alone is unacceptable in disqualifying states health department had initially reported around 8000 fatalities in cat homes but those who were transferred to hospital and died there were excluded from the think is something that was deliberate to make the number of victims seem lower if they are added the death toll is almost twice as high cuomo has acknowledged there was a delay in the reporting of some deaths but victims' relatives still have questions for their use in a nursing home station in the nursing home for 23. when you were there were at least in theory ended my family 'd could no longer stay here and. the nursing home. system was not prepared for any kind of health care emergency and i know my father is still in county but the governor's attitude who cares where they die it does matter because it points to one where where they're you know errors in their policies into why they are afraid of having those numbers revealed but we also spoke to 2 women who lost parents to coronavirus in the care facilities and the man i set up the advocacy group voices scene is they say that care home deaths are not a priority for politicians. my father is still among the uncounted because he was released from a nursing home rehabilitation center after next surgery knowingly with the virus he was labeled a covert suspect in his nursing home paperwork and made him test him they didn't treat him they didn't tell us and unfortunately we were the ones when we got him home that had to put him in a hospital when he came home he was in terrible condition and he collapsed on the driveway exposing my whole family to coal bed and we all got sick shortly there after. my father unfortunately lost his life on april 14th after being on a ventilator for almost 2 weeks and it was purely preventable he was only 76 years old he was a healthy man and it was a pure cova death the facility failed her. and the state failed her. i think that right now at least many of the deaths that happen in nursing homes were because of a mandate or more but in that force these facilities to take in patients when they were not equipped to take care of them so it's a combination of both my mother's facility was reporting 40 deaths back in april when my mother died and she was not part of that number because she died at the hospital so when months and months continue to pass and it stayed up 40 we knew that that number could not be correct i mean you're not going to tell me that 40 people die on a one shot and then no one dies for months so when the number actually came out we were we were basically you know we were found to be true or that it was not correct . finally our sister channel in germany r.t. do it has found a lawsuit against the newspaper build its over claims by the berlin based tabloid that r.t. made its report a spy for the kremlin sources telling us the story. on the face of it a sin sation old story it's got all the words to draw or read to read spawn i public enemy number one russia but a closer look and not sensation apart basically daniel lined up an r.t. to each employee claims he was essentially used as a spy for the channel and then all the information he was gathering on kremlin critic alex anan found me when he was recuperating in a bill and clinic for legit poisoning was being put straight into the hands of russian president vladimir putin since ational rights were not quite because the evidence seems more taken from a manual called john ism water one inspiring want to one as proof screenshots of a chat with editors i'll tell you these chats a common practice that the easiest way for reporters producers cameraman tech guys to coordinate and also tell you that pretty boring filled with the logistical stuff and despite claims his chart was pretty boring too yes he was also to go inside the shower take clinic one found he was schooled investigative journalism it's called trying to get ahead of other outlets so that you get the scoop in fact build was one of the most active moles inside the hospital as the head of our to do each reminds us to accuse us of spying and at the same time to post images of the every little step develop he makes including pictures of his garden to host to word it fresh in intelligence wanted to get any additional information they would buy a subscription to build plants and of course we want to remind our colleagues of german that you slay ssion that for now at least protect the media and lowering it to collect information and metis that are considered to be of public interest so bill does that it's true john it's trying to get the latest on a top developing story r.t. does that it's going to tinge of hypocrisy that claim that this work. group was filled with nefarious spying requests it's also undermined by the fact that when he questions whether getting a hidden camera recording of what's inside toward one value is remote to be which is on german military and is appropriate his boss writes clearly no i don't think so not exactly the most ruthless of spying attempts than evidence number 2 is the fan of all video agency ruptly park 247 outside the shower take clinic yes that's true in fact for a long time it was a live streamed on you tube talk about money to cover in the same way our tireless ruptly cameramen camped night and day outside the ecuadorian embassy in london to counter the truly sensational moment the jury and a son was dragged out we were the only ones to get these pictures and every outlet in the world was behind them they appreciate to drop his journalism back then but not now and the final damning allegation the anti employee in charge of line does assignment was photographed with the russian foreign minister froth at a public christmas party the horror never mind that this was one of hundreds of photos taken all that that were hundreds including foreign journalists apparently this one photo is incontrovertibly 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