towards corporate interests or is it more in the idea of a traditional. power lie with the people this case demonstrates that struggle in the very real way. the struggle. headlines in r.t. britain footage from a german crematorium highlights the extent of a resurgent pandemic in europe as burden is accused of stockpiling vaccines at the expense of other e.u. member states cup. you'll see what you see in the ritual trade choice service only i'm sure for good. so what are you doing right now. u.k. police crackdown on lockdown violators but of course on camera apparently breaking the very rules they are supposed to be enforcing and you cheat joins the list of tech giants coaching donald trump and his supporters from their platforms but it is sparking complaints that online companies have become too powerful.

even to go as far as they can because they are drunk with power like in gorged they are now controlling pretty much the the entire communications system all of the old . fellow that just turned 4 clock ever mosconi watching r.t. international now europe is suffering a new surging cases at the moment with france germany and spain registering some of the highest. 42 emerging from one of germany's worst affected regions is highlighting just how bad the situation has become some 300 bodies are piling up in the queue for a crummy turion in saxony here the coffins is stacked one on top of the other and are often simply labeled with words like and in fact. risk but it does come as the

european union struggles to maintain unity able cope with vaccine purchases brussels is a member states to keep to the block centralized distribution scheme but not for war seem to be keeping to the green mint as artie's peter all of our reports. the european union's one for all and all for one vaccine plan is called the 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. that would 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 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 site deals they may have going on the president has asked commission acuity 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 vaccines charter g 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 a lot clearer on who will get what when the $27.00 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 one set disaffection we we indeed have of 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 constraints. it is officially said so no wonder that 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 care department. it's something that we need to be prepared and we need to do is physically something is moscow is avoiding being in crowded places is making sure that one gets gets isolated and people are in contact with somebody sick we are in thailand up for some provide the support that is needed until the person can go out again these are critical measures that can save thousands of

lives 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 the 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 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 or just as the red cross then moans the public must play its part to fight the pandemic police in the

united kingdom are increasingly finding people who break down restrictions leaving home without a reasonable excuse that could mean a 200 pound fine rising to 6400 pounds for repeat offenders to shadi at his stash he found that for support is widely inconsistent and offices are sometimes forced to back down and have even appeared to have broken the roofs themselves. despite the u.k. being in a full scale national lockdown codeine 1000 cases a soaring and death rates are constantly hitting recollects the public has been ordered to stay at. home once again but it seems not everyone is sticking to the rules and where the 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 enforce 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 sticking following the rules as police later admitted to sending the fines and giving a half hearted apology look we martin being our 2. borg is an operational marker and if it's not take out confiscating private it snowballs chop shipley's of starts 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 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 review we have to tighten them we will but we have in place now is to move to the single digits to move up. 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 shouted stashed in london. now another new saffron in the usa state's last big foreign diplomatic trip is falling flat and the plug has been pulled on my visit to europe apparently because

officials there are refusing to meet with him is our france correspondent charlotta been. well the trump era is coming to a close not only with the social media blackout for trouble things such as you tube and twitter but also it seems the cold shoulder for many of the cabinet take mike is the u.s. secretary of state who is due to be in europe on wednesday for some high level meetings including with the general secretary of nato he said in a tweet just a few hours ago that he was reading looking forward to those meetings essentially his sworn song for his counterparts in europe but at the very last minute the plug was pulled on the trip more you will the u.s. state department says the player who was a man who didn't recognize the victory over by the u.s. election last year is now the man who wants to make sure that there is 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 counseling all planned travel this week including the 6 to his trip to europe it's a very different take. in the e.u. with apparently pompei you being pursued. and the european commission saying that officials didn't want to meet him they didn't elaborate on that but we've also heard from diplomatic sources there was a sense of embarrassment around the idea of being in europe given that although he had condemned the violence of those crowds who stormed the capitol building in washington last week he hasn't said whether president from being a cause a factor in that however the luxemburg foreign minister he said the trouble put them on the trumpet 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 and it also seems that there were other reasons to save face and to

cancel those meetings because had meetings gone ahead with officials in the there was a problem that would have. to be addressed and this is the compensation for the jewish families was also facts were stolen during the holocaust in the 2nd rule a dispute between washington and luxembourg now for a very long time and give you that some have suggested that those who stole the capitol building in washington last week would need to nazi sympathizers this could have put public peo in a bit old a pickle it seems to trump administration will come to an end no in a blaze of glory but in a proof of some very lax way. then i still come through this our moscow calls latvia's prosecution of russian speaking journalists in the time. democratic values we'll have a look at that most of the stories tell you just after the break. join

me every thursday so i'm unsure when i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm sure. i'll see you then. seemed wrong why don't we all just don't call. me. yet to shape out these days become educated and in detroit equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. as the trunk presidency comes to wind the country stares into

a political abyss divisions are deeper level than ever before and dialogue is almost non-existent cause of compromise is deemed to be treasonous by many this will shortly change the. call come back here with r.t. now there's only a week of the trump presidency to go but the us has representatives is still pushing the vice president to invoke the 25th amendment and remove trump from office the democrats have also filed an impeachment resolution to which they'll put to the vote later on wednesday pence though has already indicated that he would not exercise the amendment adding that attempts to impeach the president and damaging the country i do not believe that such a course of action is in the best interest of our nation are consistent with our constitution i urge the congress to avoid actions that would further divide and

inflame the passions of the moment they reach for it is really a good to new way of the greatest which is your politics it's ridiculous i think it's causing tremendous danger to our country and it's causing tremendous anger. well as lawmakers attempt to remove from them from the white house tech giants have already all but raise the president's online presence 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 that 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 and power of 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 continue to fall today the crackdown has drawn iron 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 recognized 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 loved or loved 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 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 you continue to crack down on the president. spoke to a panel of guests on whether or not to 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 drunk with power 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 have now controlling pretty much the entire communications system all over the wall but it will be a matter of telling the full since she pulled the move on to other part of the will credit party companies like twitter facebook anonymous and can do this to their own president and they do it anywhere in the well 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 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 thirty's this should be a form of duration but it needs to be transparent so this state of affairs at the moment they don't know who makes those were the rationed do you think of a creative intended to end like this with a massive bans and censorship. of course absolutely look there was so much involvement in not only private equity but in government sponsored this was never intended to be good those dean going to giants of being exposed to all they

actually are this is a mission statement to give everyone the power to create and share ideas and information into the cli without barriers now people used to believe this does anyone believe that anymore i don't think so 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 dystopia. asian that i think is something that is closer today than i've ever known it my laptop. now the russian foreign ministry is warning that latvia's prosecution of russian speaking journalists threatens fundamental values

including free speech their oppression of journalists rights is becoming ever more commonplace as some countries have set of vertical 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. month latvian security services opened criminal probes into journalists working for the boat news and r.t. affiliated support the news agencies they were accused of violating e.u. sanctions on moscow one of the accused told us how the insecurity agents lied to gain access to his home. 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 no 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. first of all sputnik a lot via and bolts news and i several times a guest 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 say the fact that the e.u. imposed sanctions against we treat the sale 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 on our of latvians who food for hitler's cause in world war 2.

so what is called a nazi march elsewhere in latium is known as remembrance day of the lothian legionnaires vadim or 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 us of order 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. oh she has done of now before we go we just wanted to tell you about our latest

documentary because footage has emerged in moscow the like o. in who was israel's top spy of the 1960 s. he became a senior military advisor to syria's government and then helped israel beat its neighbor in the 6 day war it's a story made famous to you by the hollywood star sasha baron cohen who betrayed his namesake's incredible life in the recent hit series the spy but our documentary which airs here in a few hours time does focus 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 pity 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 those who worked there. and then suddenly i saw him stop 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. 50. while the demick no certainly no borders just blind to nationalities. has emerged to build up its really we don't look like seem to me to stick. to.

judging. commentary crisis but is listening to modern times we can do better we should. everyone is contributing way but we also know that this crisis will not go on forever the challenges create the response has been masked so many good people are helping us. it makes us feel very proud that we are in it together. the world is driven by a dream shaped by our own person. the

dares thinks. we dare to ask. i can't show you my face but i'm going to teach you my story in 9093 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 his son of a $23.00. i doubt that the verb to be. confined within 4 gray walls he'd find it seems it. can all help him to leave this room.