i struggle on r.t. . sort of a morning here in the headlines this wednesday to remove footage from a german primitive highlighting the extent of a surge in covert pandemic e.u. wide amid claims to that brussels has botched the response. you'll see what you see in the restaurant trade for its service really i'm sure footed. for what you're doing right now while u.k. police cracking down on lockdown violators but the same time it seems caught on camera apparently breaking the very rules they're trying to enforce that's coming up and. you tube joining a list of tech companies that have decided to purge donald trump and his followers from their platforms the wave of balance despite the accusations of media giants

becoming just too powerful. even to go as far as they can because drunk with power like in gorged they are now controlling pretty much the entire communications system all over the wall that. they get money from moscow says art international live in me kevin 0 in if the next 30 minutes with a wednesday morning roundup. grim news to start sadly for you europe suffering a fresh surge in covert cases with france germany and spain registering some of the highest daily rates this footage emerging from one of germany's worst affected regions highlighting just how bad the situation speak during these kind of stories time again some 300 bodies piling up in a q 4 saxony crime of tory and the. coffins stacked one on top of one another often

simply inscribed with the words like covert and infectious risk. well it comes as the european union struggles to maintain unity over covert vaccine purchases brussels is urging member states to adhere to the block centralized distribution scheme but it seems a few heeding the call at the moment is our europe correspondent peter oliver. the european union's one for all and all for one vaccine plan as colp against the problem of members self interest when it comes to obtaining the jobs germany has snapped up an extra 13000000 doses of the pfizer vaccines being criticized by its partners for doing so it is selfish behavior to buy medicine by yourself disrespecting common decisions is another example of the german policy of respecting their own interests above the interests of other e.u. countries berlin insists it is playing by the rules and that those extra doses

won't be sent out until the vaccine is being dispatched across the rest of the european union germany says the real problem lies with problems when it comes to production it's not correct to see the germany secure vaccines at the expense of other countries. don't see it we have ordered enough vaccines and the question is how can they be produced how fast they can be produced and if we would have ordered more it would not have been possible to produce it quicker the shortage is due to the lack of production capacity it isn't just germany that's being accused of looking out for itself cyprus is courting israel for vaccine delivery saying that the european union isn't forthcoming with the new doses to provide a mass switch to rollout the initial indications were very encouraging but at some point there was a setback in its effectiveness 2 companies came up with the vaccine 1st phase the

buy into can be done but the number of vaccines is not enough for rapid mass vaccination e.u. commission president has live on the line is telling member states to cut it out into it here to the plan that they all agreed on we have all agreed legally binding that there will be no parallel negotiations no parallel contracts so the framework we are all we're. king in is a framework of 27 together and we are negotiating together we are procuring and together we are bringing forward this vaccination process brussels is calling on member states to come clean about any side deals they may have going on the president has asked commissioner this to send a letter to all health ministers asking them to provide us with all the necessary transparency on the way in which they are complying with the provisions of our vaccine strategy in terms of contacts or lack of contacts rather

with. those pharmaceutical companies that we have been or are negotiating with the commission on doing themselves any favors demanding transparency from member states when it comes to vaccine procurement when they are being all that clear on who will get what when the 27 agree that brussels would negotiate on their behalf the accusation is that that is being undermined by member states looking out for number one as we see the e.u. were very slow compared to other countries both in their regulation approvals both in there are a vaccination campaigns and. again no surprise that there is unsaid disaffection we we indeed have a across the across the whole front we have a very poor performance by the european union here but the central administration

of the european union all they managed was to secure so the $100000000.00 doses for a population of $450.00 so taking into account that you need 2 doses per person this was one 3rd of the population for which the vaccine was secured because of some budget constraint. is it is officially said so no wonder the e.u. population is not very happy with that performance in brussels. the red cross warning today that the development of covert vaccines does not mean people should ease up on basic preventative measures we spoke to the head of the humanitarian groups health care department about it. it's something that we need to be prepared and we need to do is physically sensing. avoiding being in crowded places is making sure that one gets gets isolated and people are in contact with somebody sick we are in time and up for some provide the support that he's needed anti the person

can go out again these are critical measures that can save thousands of flights until vaccines will be widely available in all countries we can not lower the guard right now because the. researchers are worried about what we have been seeing. the u.k. and in south africa where. developed me further mutations occur we may see potentially also reduction of the effectiveness of some of the vaccine the majority of the world unfortunately was not started vaccination programs yet and we know that we need to vaccinate people all over the world to assure safety for everybody around the world so we'll we'll have to accelerate the pace at which vaccines will be distributed around the world ensuring a mechanism to do so. in that very safe safe way and until that moment the best line of defense will be individual behavior. meantime news that

u.k. police are increasingly swooping in to find people who break pandemic longtime restrictions leaving home without a reasonable excuse of the moment could mean a 200 pound fine rising to 6400 pounds for repeat offenders but a shot at her stash he found out in force was wildly inconsistent with offices sometimes forced about down and even apparently flouting the rules themselves. despite the u.k. being in a full scale national lockdown kovac 900 cases a soaring and death rates are constantly hitting records the public has been ordered to stay at home once again but it seems not everyone is sticking to the rules and with the rule breakers rule makers have given the police more power to clamp down on the law if you do not play your part our selfless police officers who are out there risking their own lives every day to keep us safe they will inforce the regulations and i will back them to do so to protect our n.h.s.

and to save lives and england and wales piece of issued 8000 penalties since november but leading by example isn't exactly the strong point you know for if you sit down in the restroom for a service only on. what you're doing right now. some officers are not as eager to abide by the rules as they are to enforce them to women who drive hates kilometers to meet up for a walk and found themselves surrounded by police their offense carrying coffee that made to the picnic so they were fined $200.00 pounds each in fact they were strictly following the rules as police later admitted worsening the fines and giving a half hearted apology look we martin being our true. bird it's an operational marker and if it's not take out coffee spreading kind of it it snowballs truck shipley's of trucks and throws with $200.00 pounds fines there have

been 2 reports of snow balls being thrown last night between 11 and 11 30 pm this is obviously not a justifiable reason to be out of your house this behavior is likely to result in a 200 pounds fixed penalty notice for breaking the locked on rules the tweet has since been deleted after dozens of angry complaints but still the message is stay at home we're going to keep the course with you. we have to tighten we will but we have rules in place we really need now is the moment. judes. observation observance of the group's although the prime minister himself a spot it's like ling 11 kilometers away from downing street so is it a case of one rule for me and another for you shouting at it stashed. in. or out following this next the u.s. house of representatives has voted on a resolution asking vice president mike pence to invoke the 25th amendment to start

impeachment proceedings against donald trump however pen's isn't ready stated that he'd reject that call adding that attempts at a 2nd a page meant not the best course in his view of action for the country i do not believe that such a course of action is in the best interest of our nation or consistent with our constitution i urge the congress to avoid actions that would further divide and inflame the passions of the moment or the retreat really a continuation of the races which. followed the human i think it's a good day to our country and it was a tremendous anger. so as lawmakers attempt to remove trump from the white house tech giants have already all but to raise the president's online presence you tube now to joining the likes of in facebook and twitter in banning donald trump's social media pages as well as thousands of his followers claiming that they could use site violence it follows last week's storming of the capitol building in washington d.c.

which some leading politicians and mainstream media have branded as domestic terrorism but this pushback to against the growing role and power of big online companies covering their party america's john heard the now for you. the twitter hit list continues the social media site has permanently suspended more than $70000.00 accounts accused of promoting conspiracy theories or violent rhetoric including most prominently banning donald trump from the platform friday concluding his tweets constituted a risk to public safety and could potentially lead to more violence in the wake of these efforts twitter stocks tumbled as much as 12 percent monday and continued to fall today the crackdown has drawn ire and criticism from some republican lawmakers who say twitter is attacking the president's right to free speech and u.s. lawmakers aren't alone a spokesman for german chancellor angela merkel said chancellor merkel criticized twitter is trying to ban arguing legislators not private companies should decide on

free speech and expression regulations european union commissioner terry britton called the chaos on capitol hill the quote $911.00 moment of social media writing in an op ed for politico that by banning donald trump social media companies have quote recognize their responsibility duty and means to prevent the spread of illegal viral content they can no longer hide their responsibility toward society by arguing that they merely provide hosting services yet he goes on to write that the fact a c.e.o. can pull the plug on posts is loudspeaker without any checks and balances is perplexing adding it is not only confirmation of the power of these platforms but it also displays deep weaknesses in the way our society is organized in the digital space for those who either love or love the dons daily rants and raves well it certainly is a perplexing time though maybe not exactly surprising twitter and facebook were already flagging trumps posts and seemingly moving in the direction of suspending

and or banning him altogether but another question critics of the social media slaughter are raising is why so late in the game with less than 2 weeks in his presidency many contend the social media crackdown should have been. and sooner or not at all others contend it's a dangerous power play by big tech flexing its digital muscles knowing full well that president trump's powers on the eve of his departure from office are more limited in that he doesn't have the time or ability at this point to attack the social media platforms that have launched a full scale war on him and the hits keep on coming for trump deutsche bank now reportedly cutting ties with the dawn of a move that would be a major cut in funding for his hotels and golf courses and speaking of which the p.g.a. announced it would strip trump's new jersey golf club from a major championship tournament next year a move that reportedly gutted the president for our t.v. john hardy. more on it then of the ramifications nicky spoke to

a panel of guests old whether action must be taken against increasingly powerful tech companies. they just won an election they're going to see how far they can push this this is a stress test to see how far the law will go how long how much people will tolerate and are going to go as far as they can because drunk with power like it in gorge to kick that is filled with blood just can't get enough of this so where it ends who knows they know which way the wind is blowing donald trump is no longer going to be in the white house almost all of these companies face antitrust suits that are going to be decided by the biden department of justice and so now there is going to be less of a priority to maybe make these arguments internally that donald trump and his account should be protected but these are self interested actors it is over years that they are now controlling pretty much the entire communications system all over the wall which is unprecedented what we are going to see a police. because it will be

a matter of telling the full censorship will be move on to other part of our problem they will credit bardi companies like twitter and facebook and imus and can do this to their own president if they do it anywhere in the well it's to any government they don't like. oh certainly so. they that the largest problems within these companies is that there really is no actual basis for which they are operating there is no bible there is no constitution there is no their terms of service are often edited and malleable and even then subject to vague enough to be subject to the whims of internal discussions within the company this it means that we have to rewrite the 1st amendment in this country because this is a quote private company that 99 percent of all the people on the planet using our laws are outdated and unless that is changed nothing will change at least in this

country now the question who should be more the rating perhaps the series this should be a form of moderation but it needs to be transparent so the state of affairs at the moment they don't know who those were the rationed settlements of the city. is no going to be certainly acceptable when social media platforms where created do you think the creative intended it to end like this with a massive bans and censorship. of course absolutely look one of these days we're going to find out that this this this fraudulent story about these kids these nerdy kid who came up with the idea there was so much involvement in not only private equity but in government sponsored this was never intended to be good this isn't some kind of a scrapbook that we keep this was one of the biggest cons that we fell into hook line and sinker those dean going to giants of being exposed to all the actually are

this is a mission statement to give everyone the power to create things share ideas and information instantly without barriers now people used to believe this. and you won't believe that anymore i don't think so ai russian made messaging out telegram has seen a surge in popularity in recent days 5600000 downloads since wednesday and 5 people ditching whatsapp by facebook in fact turkey's president has just joined telegram as well is that an encouraging sign you think yes rising social media is going to be a benefit the question that i have is are we now bifurcating the internet are we going to totally solve select from the point of adolescence or before or to be handed down by our parents to our children that we now only go on social networks and only interact with people and they're only hosted on servers that either are liberal or

conservative or possibly even more extreme versions of that that to me is a vision that i think is something that is closer today than i've ever known it my laptop. it's a. good morning coming up but who needs proof when the u.s. secretary of state well critics say there's 0 evidence right now for my proposed claim that iran is sheltering al qaida terrorists just one of the stories ahead. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to us of the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you then.

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no harboring the terrorist group. al qaida has a new home base it is the islamic republic of iran my proposal it is not being backed up by any publicly available intelligence assessment iran was quick to reject the claim saying it's doing more than any country to fight terrorism and the iranian foreign minister had some harsh words then for his u.s. counterpart. from designating cuba to fictitious iran declassification soon al qaeda claims mr will lie cheat and steal is pathetically ending his disastrous career with more warmongering lice it comes a day after top administration put cuba back on the list of state sponsors of terrorism or valor had been removed from the list back in 2050 we heard from side mohammad marandi from the university of tehran who told us the problems with washington predate in his view and the rand is going to be very cautious taking its

approach to the incoming administration because they are obama regime that created the maximum pressure campaign in the 1st place that trunk repeated our goal more harshly and it was during the obama regime that iranian scientists were murdered during trial only one was murdered during obama 4 were murdered and of course cyber attacks on iran took place as well during obama so we biden was his vice president know when he ran trust him but if he decides to do the smart thing and implement the nuclear deal and totally iran will do so as well but iran will accept no preconditions and it will not accept any changes to the nuclear deal nor will it negotiate its defense capabilities especially with american bases surrounding iran and it will not negotiate its regional alliances. a bit different to let you know when you might want to see on

a documentary channel mysterious footage that dates back to the sixty's showing the renowned israeli spy story inspired 2 movies a surface to moscow you couldn't watch it later throughout the day various times here or on our documentary channel. this is eli cohen a super spy who some consider a national hero and others and evil villain an israeli. it was handwritten on the boxes. and then step by step i began to unravel the story back in 1963 couldn't even imagine him he had probably caught on camera. 'd phone was close to the highest authorities of syria he was around the soviet spies and was proficiency in transmit a signal interceptions the center of damascus was where all our protagonists could run into each other at some point and considering they lived there for about 3

years there is a very good chance that it indeed happened. actually the own town was where bodies lukin used most of his 8 millimeter film stock. and then one day bodies lukin turned his camera on and he is who it caught. it was january 19th 65 when israeli agents in like oh i was tracked by intelligence services. soldiers and several plain clothes men entered cowan's apartment right when he was using a radio to transmit some messages to tel aviv cohen was caught red handed his execution in damascus was broadcast live. there's no direct evidence that bodies lukin personally played a part in exposing ko and that it was he who narrowed down the area where the israeli spy was found that he was in the car that scoured the city of course not. but he's looking ones in damascus at that time people formed his duties as

a military signalman and his tour in syria ended in 1965 the year that cohen become a serious adverse 3 for syria and the soviet union was executed. town without pity. that was what damascus had become for israeli spy like oh. that's coming out various times a day back to the present just before i leave you some will be using brief this 1st amanda smashed the glass on the main entrance to new zealand's parliament building no one hurt though the instant the suspect parent was arrested on the spot he's been charged with possession of an offensive weapon and intentional damage and faces up to 7 years in prison. and now this russian woman said to new world record for swimming under ice well done congrats the muscovite athlete covered 85 meters under this or in lake all without

a thermal swimsuit to all the gory details but well done to her must have been. 26 minutes past the hour if you are watching the clock this morning thank you for tuning into our international we always appreciate it always much more of course on our site for to check the program as mentioned it's a various times throughout the day on our documentary channel but for now reporting from moscow for me in the team kevin 0 in signing off.

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i got this 8 millimeter film purely by accident. time period 963 to 65 place damascus. i don't don't know why young. i've watched it many times a man posing the monuments and all poster of the hollywood premiere of town without pity and a fight in a market so without versus. i had my doubts if i should waste my time on this but i came back to that film over and over again tracing a sequence of events happening in syria at that time anderson those who worked there alone would reveal. any you know what you see neal curiosity is like a petrol motion machine it lives on without a lunch break and then suddenly i saw him stop let's take another look now at low

speed this is key like cohen a super spy who some consider a national hero and others and evil villain an israeli double o. 7. i need because it's but it's them and they at the. at the one. still. 50. and no one would ever see this footage if it wasn't for an old acquaintance of mine but collected from st petersburg alexei marco. he has an incredible eye for n.t. . he once invited me to his antique shop to show some of the boxes he caught from an apartment on science. it's simple the owners were getting rid of things they didn't need. so political will you know. yes there was only one word

syria they gave the boxes to us they say along with the own video camera they said take it we don't need to get up long to properly. i don't dump clearwire young. and then. you know which you are author of raman impartial or you see order which you move in you come with your media player for a bar out of complaints quantum of getting lost. and you know. who you are when you know. you know as i walked over to the show and flown closer while i was. clear with the. dollar and when you lost people need to keep. up with you. we knew we needed to resort in a one of the cool kids to approach when you're bored. would you be a problem.