or is it more in the idea of a traditional for just a. power lie with the people this case demonstrates that the struggle is very real a. struggle on r.t. . headlines this grim footage from a german crematorium highlights the extent of a resurgent pandemic in europe amid claims that girl in stockpiling vaccines at the expense of other e.u. member states also to cut your throat you sit in the ritual take away service only i'm full of foreign food. so what are you doing right now. ok police crackdown on lockdown violators but are caught on camera apparently breaking the very rules they are enforcing and joins the list of tech giants urging donald trump and his supporters from their platform but it is sparking claims that online companies have become simply too proud. and eager to go as far as the biggest drunk with

power like in gorged they are now controlling pretty much the entire communications system all over the wall. hello there good afternoon you're watching r.t. international just on 3 o'clock in moscow now europe is suffering a new surge in k.v. cases with france germany and spain registering some of the highest a great footage emerging too from one of germany's worst affected regions is highlighting just how bad the situation has become some $300.00 bodies are piling up in a king for a crummy tureen here in saxony the coffin stacked $100.00 top of each other are often simply labeled with words like david and infectious risk when it does come as the europe. in union struggles to maintain unity over code vaccine purchases

brussels is a member states to keep to the block centralized distribution scheme but not all seem to be paying to the green mint as artie's peter all over now reports. the european union's one for all and all for one vaccine plan is co-op against the problem of members self interest when it comes to obtaining the jobs germany has snapped up an extra $13000000.00 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 of buying to commit 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 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 working. in is a framework of 27 together we are negotiating together we approach your ring 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 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 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 cross 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 constraints it is officially said so no wonder the e.u. population is not very happy with that performance in brussels meanwhile the red cross has warned that the development of vaccines does not mean that people should ease up on basic preventative measures we spoke to the head of the humanitarian groups health and care department. it's something that we need to be prepared and we need to do is physically some saying. avoiding being in crowded places is making sure that one gets gets isolated and people are in contact with somebody 'd sick we are in thailand up for some provide the support that is needed and to the person can go out again these are critical measures that can save thousands of life 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 new further mutations occur we may see potentially also reduction of the effectiveness of some of the vaccine the majority of the world unfortunately i 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 a vaccine 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 or just as the red cross ones then the public must play its part to fight the pandemic police in the

u.k. are increasingly finding people who do bright lockdown restrictions leaving home without a reasonable excuse that could mean a 200 pounds fine rising to 6400 pounds for repeat offenders but it shaddy it was dashed the fan back and forth with his wife being consistent and offices a sometimes forced to back down and if even a paid to a broken of or themselves. despite the u.k. being in a full scale national lockdown kind of a time 6 1000 cases a soaring and death rates are constantly hitting raechel it's the public has been ordered to see. a at home once again but it seems not everyone is sticking to the rules and with rule breakers rule makers have given the place 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 a restaurant takeaway service only on through the 43rd. so what you're doing right now. some offices are noses eager to abide by the rules as they owe it to enforce them to women who drive 8 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 is looking to martin to be an hour to. work it's an operational marker and if it's not take out confiscating private it snowballs truck shipley's of trucks and throws with $200.00 pounds fines there have been 2 reports

of snowballs 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 lockdown 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 rules on the course and review where we have to tighten them we will but we have in place now is the moment for maximum. maximum. observation observer 2 of the groups although the prime minister himself was spotted cycling 11 kilometers away from downing street so is it a case of one rule for me and another for you. r.t. . now the u.s. secretary of state's last big foreign diplomatic trip has fallen flat because the plug has been pulled on my pump visit to europe because officials there are

apparently refusing to meet with him so let's get more details and go to paris to speak with geology bizkit who's following the story for say good afternoon to charlotte so that one last snub to the trump ministration from europe. yes that's right the trumpet ministration is coming to an end in the next 3 days and it seems the only a block out the door will trump all some social media channels but also the cold shoulder slopes to some of these 2 faces as well in particular we're talking about mike player who's the u.s. secretary of state who is supposed to be in europe or wednesday for some high level meetings including a meeting with the u.n. secretary general of nato now that now is not going ahead despite the fact that just a few hours ago you might prompt you said tweet saying he was very much looking forward to it it was supposed to be he's sworn in so on the way to say goodbye to his

counterparts in europe but according to the u.s. state department mike pompei is a man who didn't know it 1st of all the boy didn't have one victory in the u.s. election last year has said that he is now determined to preside over a smooth transition. we are fully committed to the completion of a smooth and orderly transition process to be finalized over the next 8 days as a result we're canceling all planned travel this week including the secretary's trip to europe. well it seems that there was a different tale in the european union. where apparently. is the norm crossed it with the e.u. commission the european commission saying that new officials were prepared to meet . and we also some through diplomatic sources were barrister about the idea of meeting who had condemned the violence we saw the storming of the capitol building in washington last week but if refused to mention if the torch from had

had any sort of impact on not the luxembourg foreign minister before from eggs didn't always. trump a criminal a political pyromaniac who should be sent to the criminal court he's a person who was elected democratically but who isn't interested in democracy in the slightest. well it seems there were also other reasons for attempting to save face had been meetings with luxembourg officials going ahead there might have been a bit of an issue considering the fact that luxembourg in washington of being in a bit of tit for tat over compensation for jewish families whose artifacts were stolen from them during the holocaust this was likely to come up with given that many people have accused those who stormed the capitol building last week of being not see sympathises this could have put pompei you in a bit of

a pickle so it seems the trumpet ministration pub player won't be leaving office in a blaze of glory but more likely in a proof of some very black smoke. ok thank you charlotte is artie charlotte pinsky there reporting out from paris. well there is of course only a week left of the trump ministration even so us has representatives is pushing vice president mike pence to invoke the 25th amendment against on trump a process that could see the president removed from office well the democrats have also filed an impeachment resolution to which they'll put to the vote on wednesday pence though has already indicated that he would not exercise the amendment adding that attempts to impeach the president a damaging 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 on the bridge it's really

a continuation of the greatest which is your politics it's ridiculous i think it's a good thing tremendous danger to our country and it's causing tremendous danger. well as lawmakers attempt to remove trump from the white house the tech giants have already all but to raise the president's online presence you tube has now joined the likes of amazon facebook and twitter in suspending donald trump social media pages as well as purging thousands of his followers claiming they could incite violence it does follow 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 there is pushback against the growing role power of the big online companies r.t. america's john hardy reports. 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 trump's 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. 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 trumps 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 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 well as tech giants to continue then to crackdown on the president mickey aaron spoke to a panel of guests on whether they've become simply too powerful. 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 the 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 eighty's over the years that they are now controlling pretty much the 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 time before 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 per cent of all the people on the planet use 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 duration but it needs to be transparent so the state of affairs at the moment they don't know who makes those were the rationed settlements with 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 just the internet giants of being exposed to all the actually are this is a mission statement to give everyone the power 4 to create and share ideas and the information age the glee without barriers now people used to believe this does anyone believe that anymore i don't think so russian made messaging out telegram

has seen a surge in popularity in recent days 5600000 downloads since wednesday and 5 people ditching whatsapp which is owned by facebook and in fact turkey is 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 their 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. russia's foreign ministry spokesperson has warned that his prosecution of russian speaking journalists threatens fundamental values

including free speach. their oppression of journalists rights is becoming ever more commonplace and some countries have set of state mechanisms for exerting pressure on dissident media professionals we view this aggressive actions as a blatant disregard for press freedom and freedom of speech the basics of a democratic society last month latvian security services opened criminal probes into journalists working for the news and r.t. affiliated news agencies they were accused of violating sanctions on moscow one of the accused told us though security agents flight to gain access to his own group was crucial so the shakedown started at 9 30 in the morning on december the 3rd somebody rang the doorbell introduced themselves as plumbers well i opened it and about 12 self-proclaimed plumbers entered. you may be asking yourself who is

this man what did he do is he a drug dealer a devious and loathsome russian hacker may be know the dealer is a journalist making a living by selling his articles to various outlets and from the standpoint of the latvian authorities he recently chose the wrong ones to do business with. i write articles being published in 2 sources that are subsidiaries to receive a savoyard 1st of all sputnik a lot fewer and bolts news and i several times just contributed for ria novosti the dimmer isn't the only one a total of 7 journalists have had their homes turned upside down loudly and authorities the fact that the e.u. imposed sanctions against retreat of head of the media holding that all 7 journalists occasionally wrote for none of the writers though can see any logic to what's happening and how exactly the vortex of penalties against one particular

individual sucked them all in. as a matter of fact they are freelance employees of their actions they write and edit texts select photos in other words they do their job and exercise their right to freedom of expression indeed bound only by the shackles of their professional integrity. along with his colleagues exposed events like these in honor of latvians who fought for it was cause in world war 2.

so what is called a nazi march elsewhere in latium is known as remembrance day of the lothian legionnaires virginia says the government wants to mute any voice putting this and other controversial practices in the spotlight one thing is absolutely clear the goal of such searches and intimidations is to strip roscius avoidance of correspondence so that people will be afraid of cooperating with them and to undermine russian media influence here russia has repeatedly called out latvia over what moscow views as persecution bringing this to the attention of the european union to urge in the block to simply uphold the values it so proudly stands for the legal case stays open leaving journalists with the constant fear of getting that knock on the door. because dan of reporting there now before we go we just want to

tell you about our latest documentary because footage has emerged in moscow of eli cohen who was israel's top spy of the 1960 s. he became a senior military adviser to syria's government and helped israel beat its neighbor in the 6 day war in fact it is a story made famous by the hollywood star sacha baron cohen who betrayed his namesake's incredible life in the hit series the spy but our documentary which does they're here in a few hours time focuses on who filmed this latest footage and why. i got this 8 millimeter film purely by accident. time period 963 to 65 place damascus. i've watched it many times a man posing in monuments and all poster of the hollywood premiere of town without and a fight in a market so without bruises. 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 and most of those who worked there. and then suddenly i saw him stopped let's take another look now at low speed this is eli cohen a super spy who some consider a national hero and others and evil villain and israeli double 07.

seemed wrong but i. just don't. get to shape out these days to come to cancel it. gains from it because the trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. i can't show you my face but i'm going to teach you must story in 9903 this man was sentenced to death. they could charged with capital murder even though he didn't

have the gun didn't pull the trigger didn't intend to kill anybody imagine living in your bathroom for that week with the scent of a $23.00. i doubt that it deserved to be. confined within 4 gray walls he fights using. to help him to leave death row. greetings and sell you tell you. all right let's kick things off today with mr q. anon shame on himself mr jake angele you remember little jake he was one of the most visible members of the modest submission of us who took over the capitol building in january 6th areas what with his you know buffalo horns and.