astra zeneca $1000.00 victor vaccine has hardly been out of the headlines since last december in till now it's been instrumental in the success of the u.k.'s vaccination program but from now on its use there will be restricted to those over 30 years of age there have been worries in the european union about its effectiveness and potential side effects germany initially restricted its used to under 60 five's now berlin is recommending it purely for over sixty's those worries were compounded by several cases of a rare thrombosis type following astra zeneca vaccinations some of them fatal. the european medicines agency in amsterdam felt it was time to take a stance on the job its director stressing that the benefits of the antiviral agent far outweigh any risks. this vaccine has proven to be highly effective if it prevents if severe disease and hospitalized patients and he is saving lives vaccination is extremely important in helping us in the fight against scope at 19 and we need to use the fact things we have to protect us from the devastating effects scientists have been investigating

still says astra zeneca is safe to use with the benefits outweigh the risks. safety committee has concluded today that unusual blood clots with low blood platelets should be leased to does very rare side effects of zambia e m a is reminding health care professionals and people receiving the vaccine to remain aware of the possibility of very rare cases of blood clots combined with low level of blood platelets occurring within 2 weeks of vaccination. what they will be know though is new advice not just to those. people but also patients who go and get the astra zeneca job that advice will include if within 2 weeks of receiving astra zeneca you face shortness of breath swelling in parts of the border the persistent headaches to go and seek medical advice straight away now it's not clear if the cases that they looked at those 62 cases of the brain blood bleeds and 24 cases of the abdominal throat bruises included 2 cases here in france which resulted in deaths one was a 24 year old medical student in north and here in france their investigations carried out now in

now fresh questions have been raised linking the astra zeneca coated jap to blood clots and a senior official from the european medicines agency says there may be a link and it's still it's still unclear exactly how it causes medical problems but it's relatives of those who've died after getting the job but one justice let's go live now to our correspondent shortly defense case charlecote morning to you so she is the latest cloud gathering go faster than a current seems. that's right as those doubts have been raised once again this time by the top official at the european medicines agency at the may there are no calls for clarity to find out exactly what these links are potentially between us and red toy blood clots now see we've been talking to the lawyer representing 2 families here in france families whose loved ones died in the days after receiving astra zeneca job and they say that they want oh mrs. orme they want to understand the investigation has been launched the autopsy has been requested and done the question for the moment is to find out if it was caused by the vaccine it

astra zeneca has coated job pits the spotlight again as the european medicines agency's vaccine chief linked it to blood clots with the families of those who died after getting the sharks demanding answers. today it seems highly likely that a link exists between the astra zeneca jab and occurrence of the from bosis we want to understand what happened and afterwards to find those responsible. long queues form in pakistan as the country runs out of sputnik v with clinics pushing for local production of rushes in demand vaccine. a black teenagers rushed to hospital after a brutal police arrest canadian officers admits they got the wrong suspects we speak to his family who think this is a case of racial profiling. he was injured and he was driven to hospital but. he remained. so we knew it wasn't really looking for. a very warm welcome and good morning to you 88 am here in the russian capital you're watching r.t. international with me here aaron. there are fresh questions have been raised linking the astra zeneca cova job to blood clots a senior official from the european medicines agency

astra zeneca $1000.00 vector vaccine has hardly been out of the headlines since last december in till now it's been instrumental in the success of the u.k.'s vaccination program but from now on its use there will be restricted to those over 30 years of age there have been worries in the european union about its effectiveness and potential side effects germany initially restricted its used to under 60 five's now berlin is recommending it purely for over sixty's those worries were compounded by several cases of a rare thrombosis type following astra zeneca vaccinations some of them fatal. the european medicines agency in amsterdam felt it was time to take a stance on the job its director stressing that the benefits of the antiviral agent far outweigh any risks. this vaccine has proven to be highly effective if it prevents if severe to season hospitalisation and it is saving life so vaccination is extremely important in helping us in the fight against cope at 19 and we need to use the back scenes we have to protect us from the devastating effects scientists have been investigating the re

following vaccination with the astra zeneca vaccine should be listed as. defects of the vaccine when you advice will be given out to those to inoculate patients as well as those who are seeking the astra zeneca job but if they show specific symptoms within a 2 week period that they should seek medical advice those symptoms include if they have persistent ted takes if there's a shortness of breath or even if they have perhaps swelling in their legs now it's not clear whether the cases that were reviewed by the safety committee include 2 deaths that are being tested gated here in france the lawyer representing 2 families says the what they want is all. they want to understand the investigation has been launched the autopsy has been requested and done the question for the moment is to find out if it was caused by the vaccine itself or by the way it was injected but today it seems highly likely that a link. exists between the astra zeneca jab and occurrence of the thrombosis we want to understand what happened and afterward to find those responsible who alread

astra zeneca vaccine is in the spotlight as the european medicines agency's top official links it to blood clots while the medical body itself goes on pointing to the jobs benefits. and fire bombs and bricks the price of post border checks in northern ireland we look at the background to the weekend's violent attacks on police. are broadcasting live there direct from our studios in moscow this is arch international and sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us now a correspondent with r.t. america had their twitter account temporarily suspended with the social network only agreeing to lift of the block after she removed a video of alleged u.s. war crimes which she had earlier read tweeted we're about to show some of that footage but be warned you may find it disturbing. first released by wiki leaks in 2010 the once classified u.s. military video appears to show the indiscriminate shooting of over a dozen civilians in a baghdad suburb from an american helicopter and among those killed are 2 employees of the reuters news agency who said it had managed to obtain video from a number

vaccine the oxford astra zeneca vaccine comfortable scrutiny medicines regulators in the u.k. and the e.u. have judged that its benefits outweigh any possible risks but they haven't ruled out a calls link between the vaccine and rare blood clot conditions in a tiny number of recipients based on the current have agents the benefits of the covert 900 facts in astra zeneca against covert 90 and its associated risks hospitalization and death continues to outweigh the risks for the vast majority of people. our review has reinforced that the risk of this fred suspected side effect remains extremely small in arms today the european medicines agency said there was insufficient data to isolate risk factors like age and gender and that blood clotting should be listed as a possible side effect of the jab this case also shows us that our pharmacovigilance system is working these very rare and unusual events have been picked up identified analyzed and loudest to come to science based recommendations to allow the safe and effective use of this vaccine investigations into the astra zeneca va

astra zeneca is coated job hits the spotlight again as the european medicines agency's vaccine chief links it to blood clots but the families of those who died after getting the shots demanding answers today it seems highly likely that a link exists between the astra zeneca jab and occurrence of the from post we want to understand what happened afterwards to find those responsible. for the demands to remove a decade old video of alleged u.s. war crimes claiming it violates the platforms of graphic content policy. and in italy march in support of struggling businesses turns violent as the majority of them unable to stay afloat enough to lock down in a year. very warm welcome and good morning to you it's 10 am here in the russian capital and you're watching r.t. international with me to keep our top story this hour fresh questions have been raised linking the astra zeneca coated job to blood clots a senior official from the european medicines agency says there may be a link and it's still unclear exactly how it causes medical problems but relatives of those who have died after getting

benefit is less with astra zeneca and luckily the u.k. can choose which vaccines it wants to use since it has availability of medina and pfizer that won't be the case in all other countries what do you make of the fact that there's been no. sort of overall policy dictated by the european union on this we've now got different european countries setting the bar for when they use yesterday and it as you say is what we can quite confusing not in countries have got different age settings would you think that. unfortunately that will continue to confuse the population but that's how the european union functions with health being under the domain or the control of its 27 member states of the european medicines agency has concluded that the blood very rare side effects they scrutinize the situation and reported twice with the same findings but then it's up to the individual member states to decide how to use it we've already seen many differences between the countries are sticking it to various age groups 1st it was a younger age group now it mig

are studying a possible combination of pfizer biotech and the astra zeneca vaccine so i think all 3 of those options that are being considered. are important what needs to be done though is they need to be studied more carefully if you're going to increase the interval if you're going to add a 2nd or in this case a and if you're going to combine different vaccines and even different axes of different technologies it needs to be well studied and what we're seeing with the chinese study is that in the 60 countries where the chinese next see another 60 countries have approved it we haven't even had an the data publicly available published in the peer reviewed literature and that's what's really concerning yeah and on that note jeffrey brazilian trials of the set of a vaccine showed an efficacy rate of around 50 percent and if you compare that to the trials we saw in turkey in indonesia of the same vaccine those stood at between 91 and 65 percent how do you explain the varying level of effectiveness. well again without all the details you know we can only speculate we can wonder if it has

in the hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of doses of astra zeneca. ready for appointments for people to come in and have the job when left because people are afraid of these possible side effects she's not called for a national campaign here in france to explain what the potential side effects are not just of astra zeneca but of all of the other vaccines that have already been approved in the e.u. such as the 5 is a bio tech vaccine. vaccine but the reality is when you've got to talk to him a official now making this significant link between these rare types of blood clots and deaths as a result of astra zeneca perhaps that's just a blow too much for the facts seen britain's health regulator is mulling restricting the use of astra zeneca as covert vaccine for younger people trials on children have also been put on hold as investigations continue into a link between the job and blood clots we call reaction on the streets of london. i had my 1st box in the good book problem mom's not get in it because she saw this from some health condition she's not g

astra zeneca kovac jump into the spotlight again as the european medicines agency's vaccine chief links it to blood clots but the families of those who died after getting the shot demanding answers. twitter demands the removal of a decade old video of alleged u.s. war crimes good violates their platforms policy on graphic content. and in italy a march in support of struggling businesses turns violent with officers injured by protesters warning they won't survive a 3rd lockdown in a year. very warm welcome from our team here in the russian capital and you're watching r.t. international with me. now fresh questions are being raised about the astra zeneca vaccine with the latest link leading to further calls for restrictions a senior official from the european medicines agency says there may be a connection between the job and blood clots although it's still unclear exactly how and why problems occur artie's it sure do but he has a story. those doubts have been raised once again this time by the top official of the european medicines agency at the may there are no calls for clarity to find

artie's nikki erin bringing us the latest on the astra zeneca job thank you. and other news the french president admits he made mistakes throughout the pandemic and a televised address to the nation among all mccrone has announced a 3rd nationwide lockdown as covert cases soar intensive care about are filling up and the country's death toll nears 100000 he said the situation left him with no other choice. the city did i know that every stage of this epidemic we might say to ourselves that we could have done better that we made mistakes this is true we all need to make an additional efforts over the coming months this is what i ask of us collectively tonight the new lockdown measures will be extended from 19 areas to all of mainland france from saturday as means a nationwide curfew beginning at 7 pm will be imposed and travel between regions will be the french president has also said schools will be closed for at least 3 weeks and announce additional policing to ensure no more than 6 people gather at once the measures introduced by the french president come as

mexico says it will continue to use astra zeneca scoff at 19 vaccine even though some countries have suspended its use after cases of blood clots following in occupations on wednesday the european union's drug regulator said the vaccine may cause a toss and very rare cases but i know how to the polls from mexico city already despite international concerns over the c b a the astra zeneca vaccine mexican political leaders are trying to settle the doubts that many have about receiving the jam correspondent asked a cynic yes i will be receiving the astra zeneca vaccine it's been proven that the risks are minimal compared to the benefits. and while mexican health officials have said they are investigating claims by britain's joint committee on vaccination and immunization over a possible link between the astra zeneca vaccine and a rare blood clotting disorder there is no plan to suspend its use was in business but in kill enough in short relax there's no scientific evidence that suggests a high risk of thrombosis from the astra zeneca vaccine therefore in a majority of countries where it'

celebrities to seduce frogs into saving potentially dangerous astra zeneca influences could reportedly be used to shift the unpopular cause it job but people aren't buying it so let's just have people like cost i don't think they have more knowledge than the specialists but i will not get vaccinated because some famous person tells me today it's like they're telling me to jump for breach i'm not going to do that. blank lines matter of rallies found by us democrats go out of control on warnings that an office is conviction for george floyd's killing is not enough. a very good morning to you it's 11 am here in moscow and you're watching international with me in the key aaron. german politicians are considering a bill to let the government overruled regional powers and force harder kozik restrictions including stopping personal contacts and shutting sports facilities it sparks police clashes with angry demonstrators. her. on wednesday the bundestag the german parliament voted through amendments to the infection protection act which would essentially take powers to impose covert restrictio

astra zeneca job hits the spotlight again as the european medicines agency as a vaccine chief links it to blood clots with the families of those who died after getting the shot demanding answers. which demands the removal of a decade old video all the u.s. war crimes claiming it violates the platform's policy on graphic content. and in italy a mob support of struggling businesses tons farland with offices injured by protesters warning they won't survive a look down in a year. hello and welcome this is all it international live from moscow we are very happy you joined us this sunny wednesday morning. well let's start with how fresh questions have been raised about the astra zeneca vaccine with the latest length leading to the calls for restrictions a senior official from the european medicines agency says that may be a connection between the job and blood clots although it's still unclear exactly how and why problems occur t. shot it deep in scheme has the story. those diaries have been raised once again this time by the top official of the european medicines agency at the may there are

s verdict it has now recommended the continued unrestricted use of the astra zeneca jab regardless of any rare cases of thrombosis. mixed messages there about vaccine safety to unpack this let's bring in coastal kolaches a vaccine scientist an infectious disease physician at johns hopkins university in baltimore maryland. so let's start with astra zeneca as as we heard that's been given to more than half the adults in britain and is credited with saving tens of thousands of lives i gladly take it but authorities here in germany and other countries are blocking its use and offering no timely alternative isn't that in itself putting people's lives in danger. so when you have a pandemic that's out of control like we have for the curve it maintain a pandemic then any facts then you have to weigh the risks and benefits of any available preventive such as a vaccine or treatment and for the astra zeneca vaccine it has been shown to have saved millions of lives already and so the the potential benefits might outweigh any risks now there are some very serious risks associated with it in very v

have given in to pressure to release those astra zeneca vaccines. the u.s. is sending the astra zeneca vaccines and we should point out they're not even a use in the united states and that's why there was pressure given the fact that 53 percent or more of the u.s. population now has been vaccinated with the dirt of the pfizer even the johnson and johnson vaccine there were real questions about why the stockpile was just sitting there when other countries particularly india right now are in crisis so responding to that global pressure the white house announcing that it will be releasing this vaccine and we should point out that given the fact that it hasn't been approved in the united states it is going to be going through a strict quality control procedure are processed through the food and drug administration but again this is something that has been announced just in the last couple of hours by the white house press secretary and also we should point out that in the united states not only is 53 percent of the population been vaccinated but in some cases in

we think it's great that astra zeneca are said they won't be profiting during the un demick although i should point out that they can decide when the pandemic is over and at that point they will begin profiting and look with a company like us does any good there was some research done a just a couple of weeks ago which found that the amount of public money that had gone into research and development public charitable money of the oxford astra zeneca baxi was about 97 to 99 percent in other words the company has put virtually no money into research and development they've then been given at least $2000000000.00 to ramp up their manufacturing to do trials and so on this company hasn't created this vaccine a university created the vaccine and they then been helped to scale up manufacturing sure pay them for the work they've done but don't for goodness sake allow them to keep up for 20 years and decide who gets it and who doesn't get it and when you do that you've seen yourself i mean even here in the rich world the argument now between the british government and the european union over

celebrities to seduce france into saving potentially dangerous astra zeneca influences could be used to shift the unpopular covert job that people aren't buying it's. celebrities that people like cost i don't think they have more knowledge than the specialists i will not get vaccinated because some famous person tells me today it's like they're telling me jump off the breach i'm not going to do that. just starts a blank line of smarter protesters were in the offices conviction for the death of george floyd's far from enough and demand the abolition of an entire police force. a very good morning to you it's 8 am here in moscow and you're watching r.t. international with me in the care our top story this hour german politicians are considering a bill to let the government overrule the regional powers and force holiday covert restrictions including stopping personal contacts and shutting sports facilities it sparks police clashes with angry demonstrators let's go live to our correspondents in berlin and peter all of a pizza very good morning to you what's the latest place. well on wedne

finally france is reportedly planning to use celebrities twenty's the public into getting the astra zeneca covert shot but when it work artesia 2 bensky hit the streets of the capital to find out. celebrity power could be about to be hollowness for its most bizarre campaign to date helping to convince people to have the astra zeneca job questions over its possible links to red blood clots and its effectiveness have essentially made it roll the undesirable for some leaving the french leadership scratching its head and wondering how to make it more appealing we have had difficulties convincing people on astra zeneca we must think about communication and our ability to convince if we want the vaccination campaign to improve though the president to may have been part of that given his previous speed use the vaccine the real problem with astra zeneca is that it doesn't work the way we were expecting it to the problem is so bad that in the city of meese a covert vaccination center got to be closed over the weekend when only 58 people turned up despite some 4000 doses of astra zeneca up for grabs

warn against the use of the astra zeneca jab for anyone under. this agreement the benefits of the shot still outweigh the risks in the fight against corona. but i don't come all santa maria here in doha with the world news from al-jazeera it is day 8 of the terror shove and murder trial but defense and prosecution police training and.

and coming on the program here on our france's enlisting celebrities to get people to take the astra zeneca vaccine but is it all going smoothly story just a few minutes. but for now the conviction of former officer derek shogun for the murder of george floyd has only fired up black lives matter demonstrators they poured back onto the streets saying the police shooting of a black teenage girl on the day of the verdict just goes to show a total lack of progress. the officers claim they were justified in shooting the 16 year old and have launched a probe however protesters have run out of patience calling on the police to be defended and denouncing. donald quarter reports on those rallies and how they've been encouraged by the democratic party. the verdict guilty but the mass is far from satisfied it wasn't long before celebration over chauvinists fate once more turned into anger. don't want you here. you don't want your area. or. right progressive's are paying a lot of lip service to it's not justice and i'll explain to you right it's not justice. it's not justice because justice is george f

because the conflicting advice information on the astra zeneca vaccine now e.u. governments have really been a pains over the last weeks to say this vaccine is safe its benefits outweigh the risks never the less all of that criticism has shaken the reputation of this vaccine in the e.u. at a time when it is needed as i said as part of this vaccine rollout. of the live in paris thank you natasha. also russian know where there looks to be another setback for kremlin critical action of only a prosecutor's office has asked the russian courts to suspend its of its use of foundation for combating corruption which he set up with army was jailed for a parole violation earlier this year recently did a hunger strike in prison he says the charges against him are politically motivated spurted smith joins us live from moscow bernard what work each of us about this. however later this week prosecutors will ask a moscow court to declare. corruption organization and his regional political organizations as extremists putting them on the same level in russia al-qaeda what prosecut

astra zeneca coronavirus vaccine was already on the microscope but fresh questions over possible links to blood clots have increased cools for clarity and more they are representing the families of 2 french people who don't light off the recently receiving the chap told oh it see that they won't own says. this all they want to understand the investigation has been launched the autopsy has been requested and done the question for the moment is to find out if it was caused by the vaccine itself or by the way it was injected but today it seems highly likely that a link exists between astra zeneca japp and occurrence of the thrombosis we want to understand what happened and afterwards to find those responsible for the lawyer mr breton is involved in the cases of people who died off to taking the drug previously understood to be in good health when a 24 year old medical student by 10 days after receiving astra zeneca in more the 2nd a 38 year old social worker also received a deuce in the same month a few days later she complained of a constant headache she was admitted to hospital and died

we think it's great that astra zeneca rosette they won't be profiting during the un demick although i should point out that they can decide when the pandemic is over and at that point they will begin profiting i looked with a company like us does any good there was some research done a just a couple of weeks ago which found that the amount of public money that had gone into research and development public and charitable money of the oxford astra zeneca vaccine was about 97 to 99 percent in other words the company has put virtually no money into research and development they've then been given at least $2000000000.00 to ramp up their manufacturing to do trials and so on this company hasn't created this vaccine had a university created the vaccine and they then been helped to scale up manufacturing sure pay them for the work they've done but don't for goodness sake allow them to keep up for 20 years and decide who gets it and who doesn't get it and when you do that you've seen yourself i mean even here in the rich world the argument now between the british government and the european

here's the hits right for the 2nd dose of astra zeneca for those under 60 who have already had the 1st dose the standing committee for vaccination will take a formal position by the end of a trail. acknowledging the news that had come through from the robert cock institute the public health body here in germany regarding potential links between the vaccine and blood clots and those that had taken it i'm going to merkel said these concerns could not be ignored alongside angle of merkel was health minister yen spawn at the press conference he described the news coming out about astra zeneca job as a major blow is this all of it is undoubtedly a sad back that one of the vaccines available to us for this pandemic appears to pose an increased risk for a certain age group 31 pieces of cerebral vento stromboli had been reported after vaccination with the astra zeneca jab 9 of which were unfortunately fetal. there was an attempt to put a positive spin on the news by health minister yen spawn though he said that the fact that this vaccine wouldn't be used on the under sixty's meant there was mo

agencies confirmed that astra zeneca is. possibly linked to cases of unusual blood clots and that it should be listed as a very rare side effect of the vaccine takes up the story. well the economy has confirmed that there is a very possible link to red types of blood clots with platelets what they say is that they think this could possibly be a response to the astra zeneca job but they haven't been able to specifically pinpoint but they think that i mean response could be something similar to a new moon response that's known for a drug called heparin which is a blood thinning drug that essentially interacts with aborting the body produces antibodies producing extra platelets and not cause is blood clots now what they said is they investigated $62.00 cases over brain blood clotting and also a food $24.00 cases of this over the abdominal area or. bleeding in the stomach area and said of those cases 18 had to be fatal now the majority of cases were said to be in women under the age of 16 with symptoms presenting within 2 weeks

at the astra zeneca about sids this is very important that we get this vaccine back online where it's been temporarily suspended but at this point there's no course the association until we have more data we won't know just getting back to the vaccinations there's a range of them out there now russia has a few of its own thing the 1st one out there are those put on the market with sputnik v some countries and the west the big. slow to approve use of it is not legitimate is it just because the medical checks haven't been done yet or is it could there be a political element to it i don't think pot politics is something that we should necessarily just just in terms of the vaccines and when different vaccines used sputnik the vaccine from what we've seen from the russian federation's the dates of its kind of oh here's to be an effective and safe vaccine is used in many member states and in some of the states that do not have access to the vaccines that are listed for it's really the russian vaccine that has come to that aid and support so sputnik they being used to many member states it d

i mean while the european medicines agency has recently approved a new name for the astra zeneca job. there's been speculation that the company behind the vaccine has decided to rebrand in response to public safety concerns infectious disease expert bob there's no easy fix to the reputational damage. in this case and a 1000000 people you know you would expect very few cases of these terrible blood clots you know the ones in the in the scientists is in the brain the venous system the brain and the disseminated coagulation route the body just terrifying and you see that you know in in younger women so with this. it's very hard to convince the public now because now you know they see faulty baxi data you know used the wrong dose corrected the dose the may have the wrong the efficacy rate had a change that so a lot of suspicion about this in the e.u. vaccine roll out in general has been beset with problems with several states now looking to break away from the joint purchase scheme the show has also expressed its concerns calling the use efforts on acceptably slow according to the organiz

in today's headlines deadly developments astra zeneca has reputation takes a further diverse the relatives of a woman who died after getting its job assume the vaccine maker we hear from her family's lawyer. one professor we are called got vaccinated there was no warning about the breast of tom bosis on the information sheet on the informed consent from . the u.s. calls grow to quote to defund the police many americans say they're terrified that will leave them in danger on the streets and in the. sports and politics must not makes the international olympic committee put his foot down and bans on flights from express the future. a very warm welcome and good morning to you this is r.t. international broadcasting live from moscow great to have you with us. astra zeneca faces legal proceedings after an italian woman given that covert vaccine died her family is taking action against the british swedish company to establish if it is to blame the 55 year old music teacher from sicily got her shot on march 11th a few days later a medical check showed blood clots forming in her body and brain she

life and also coming up the african union becomes the latest bloc to drop more orders for the astra zeneca vaccine and is looking at johnson and johnson's instead. africa's leaders meets to combat the threat of iceland fighters in mozambique. and we look at why sri lanka is using china sign of vaccine on chinese ex-pats but not on its own citizens. but we begin in myanmar where the military has again stepped up its campaign against critics calling for a return to democracy manaus a former ambassador to the u.k. says he has been locked out of the embassy in london by there's no oil to the military he had earlier with his spokesman who the british government to take steps here. that you get government where continue to mostly very just shoot off to an awful. military regime and for both working to bring democracy in yemen. he's trying to walk in the middle ground but there is no doubt which is the right side the military council has good nearly 600 people including 40 children. they have adept at doing the detained. 1000 the united nation reporter for human rights have didn't mind that actio