RT News - March 21 2021 (12:00 MSK)

Hungary's foreign minister becomes the first European official to receive Russia's Sputnik V vaccine along with 1.4 million of his compatriots. He believes politics should stay out, when it comes to saving lives. Doubts linger over whether the AstraZeneca vaccine causes blood-clots as UK doctors say some patients are cancelling appointments for the jab, despite the European Medicines Agency giving it the all-clear. The US Department of Health admits to pressuring Brazil not to use Russia's Sputnik V vaccine days before the first super-infectious Brazilian strain of coronavirus, is detected in New York. Vladimir Putin responds to Joe Biden branding him "a killer" - something the US president said despite his vow that "diplomacy is back."