RT News - March 14 2021 (12:00 MSK)

The deputy head of the EU admits 'critical flaws' in the bloc's vaccine strategy and it's made worse as a group of European states suspend the use of the Astrazeneca jab over reports of 'significant side-effects'. Britain shuts down four brand-new Covid emergency hospitals, built at a cost of half a billion pounds at the same time as public anger 'boils', over a mere one percent pay rise for frontline health workers. French performers seize three of the country's four national theaters saying they 'cannot survive' the pandemic shutdown of cultural sites. We report from one of the occupied venues. Our sister channel RT Deutsch sues a top German newspaper over 'espionage' claims regarding Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny.