join me everything. you can to get. pics. i'm sure i'll see you. as u.s. congress members debate and i'm president and 2nd impeachment of donald trump exhausted national guard troops are pictured at the capitol building in the wake of last week's storming by trump supporters. also this grim footage from a german crematorium highlights the extent of a resurgent pandemic in europe that is berlin is accused of stockpiling vaccines at the expense of other e.u. member states and. in all sorts of. records service really uncool of foreign food. for what you do. and u.k.

police crackdown on lockdown violators but a caught on camera apparently breaking the very rules they are supposed to be enforcing. get even you watching our international is just on 7 o'clock am moscow now 1st europe is suffering and use cases with france germany and spain registering some of the highest daily rates and footage emerging from one of germany's worst affected regions is highlighting just how bad the situation has become with some 300 bodies

are piling up in a queue for a creditor in saxony here the coffin stacked one on top of the other are often simply label 2 with words like reid and infectious risk does come as the european union struggles to maintain unity over vaccine purchases brussels is urging member states to keep to the block centralized distribution scheme but not all seem to be keeping to the green mint as artie's peter all of reports. it's one for all and all for one vaccine plan as corp 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 europe 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 a 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 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 for. of 27 together 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 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 their backs in asian campaigns and. again no surprise that there is unset disaffection we we indeed have an 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 we $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 official. he said so no wonder the. relation is not very happy with the performance in brussels. right now represents is in the u.s. congress is debating whether to plow ahead with another impeachment of president trump this time for inciting his supporters to storm the capital last week so let's get the latest on what's happening and go to the states to speak with kalamata he's covering this story 1st good afternoon again kept a dramatic end to the trump presidency mean he's only got what a week left but his rivals still clearly

a gunning for him. indeed the article of impeachment that has been raised by the democrats invokes inciting in surat action as the crime that makes doll trump unfit for office under the 14th amendment of the u.s. constitution it says no one can hold office in the united states if they've engaged in insurrection against the american government now donald trump says that this entire thing is simply a witch chant it's a political frame up and he doesn't buy it this is trump number. on the beach it's really a continuation of the greatest which is your politics it's ridiculous i think it's good seeing tremendous danger to our country and it's causing tremendous anger. what motions are still running high it's been a week since the protest called by donald trump that concluded with his supporters getting on to capitol hill are getting through security and and things got rather

rough as folks will recall and that is the basement basis for this vote on impeachment this point there are some republican voices that say they will vote to impeach donald trump this is congresswoman liz cheney. there has never been agreed to be trailed by a president of the united states of his office and his oath to the constitution i will vote to impeach the president. now 15000 national guard troops have been deployed to washington d.c. and they will remain there until the inauguration of joe biden takes place on the 20th there was footage of some of them sleeping on the stone floors of the u.s. capitol etc so quite a tense situation donald trump is the 3rd president in u.s. history to have been impeached andrew johnson was impeached bill clinton was impeached and donald trump has been impeached previously he was previously impeached over his phone call with ukrainian president zelinsky this is his 2nd

impeachment if it goes through which it appears likely the house will vote to bring this article of impeachment against now richard nixon step down in the lead up to a possible impeachment and if donald trump is convicted by the u.s. senate he will go down in history as the 1st president of the united states to have been removed from office now he's set to leave office pretty soon anyway but this impeachment would prevent him from ever running again for the u.s. presidency so quite a big moment these are historic days in washington d.c. right now we've got the military on standby we've got emotions running high we've got donald trump saying it's a frame up we've got members of congress of donald trump's own party speaking up against him quite an intense situation as it looks like we face yet another impeachment trial for donald trump. we do expect the results in a few as from that. like what it's all makers do attempt for move the trump from the

white house tech giants have already all but a race the president's online presence has now joined the likes of facebook and twitter in suspending donald trump social media pages as well as purging thousands of his followers claimed that they could incite violence but it does follow last week still middle of the capitol building in washington d.c. which some leading politicians and mainstream media have branded as domestic terrorism but it's the social media giants continue to crackdown on the president mccarron spoke to legal internet as well as politics experts about whether the platforms are indeed 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 are now controlling pretty much the entire communications system all over the wall but it will be a matter of time before since the ship pull be move on to other part of our problem they will credit bardi companies like twitter facebook anonymous and can do this to their own president and they do it anywhere in the world 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 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 saudis 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 do you think the 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 and being exposed to all the 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 v. asian that i think is something that is closer today then i've ever known it my laptop. the u.s. secretary of state's last big foreign diplomatic trip has fallen flat the plug has been pulled on my palm pays for is it to europe apparently because officials there are a few zing to meet with him he's our france correspondent charlotte dubinsky. well

the trump era is coming to a close not only with the social media blackout for. 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're fully committed to the completion of a smooth transition process to be finalized over the next 8 days as a result we counseling all planned travel this week including the secretary's 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 this crowd to storm the capitol building in washington last week he hadn'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 that there

was a problem that would have. to be addressed and this is the compensation for jewish families whose artifacts were stolen during the holocaust in the 2nd world war a dispute between washington and luxembourg though for a very long time it will give you that some of suggested that those who stormed the capitol building in washington last week would need to nazi sympathizers this could have put pompei you in a bit of a pickle it seems to trumpet ministration will come to an end in a blaze of glory but in a proof of some very lax way. in other news tonight russia's covert inoculation program is about to be significantly bram it up president putin has announced that mass vaccinations should start next week. we have to switch from launch vaccination to a mass program and i'm asking you to keep this in mind to get the relevant infrastructure ready i'm asking you to stop the mass vaccination of all people as

soon as next week and to build a schedule like we do for other infections such as influenza this is definitely a milestone for this country because from this point it's not only about doctors or teachers or other jobs that forced the staff to be in touch with the loads of people face to face now the goal is to make sure that the russian vaccine is available to all citizens of this country to make sure that the koran a virus pandemic in russia is dealt a final blow and it is looking promising because of the data that we received after the 3rd stage of the trials back in december that pointed to 96 percent efficacy of this put jab the question is though whether the infrastructure is ready and whether there are enough doses and we just heard from me seeing a russian government minister who was reporting to vladimir putin that production

is on the rise and the plan is to rapidly increase the number of vaccination centers so it's on the way it's coming and i can tell you that so far in this country more than a 1000000 people have already been vaccinated but everyone really needs to be cautious with their optimism because while the numbers for new cases daily are looking quite good in this country this isn't the case in quite a few countries around the world plus there's the issue of new strains being discovered and i can tell you that last sunday a patient with a new strain has been identified in russia as well and this explains the cautious in the warning that came from the russian president to. someone else used i know that we have this new coronavirus strain. and scientists working on the. practice shows that the russian vaccine is the best in the because we should understand its effectiveness against the new strains for that we need full scale research and i

urge you to monitor just to make sure everything is fine. however though despite the things that i've been telling you about earlier we can remember that only a few months ago russia's split think the jab drew a significant amount of criticism before the 3rd stage of the trials some were saying that mainly in the west that it was too early to approve the vaccine others accused russia of using the vaccine as a political or a p.r. tool but now all of this is beginning to vanish sputnik these success is becoming apparent for everyone and we know that only a few days ago the correspondent of new york times in moscow got the job as well we saw a piece in bloomberg in which the conclusion was that basically there are no reasons to be dubious about the russian vaccine and besides us there's of course the international cooperation which points to trust mr putin has just announced that the production of sputnik thieve will soon begin in turkey that's after

a phone call with his colleague to go on we already know that the job has already been delivered to as far as argentina and more and more countries are certifying the use of it so again all of this is a sign of trust but what's very important for citizens of this country like i said earlier that next week the job will be available for everyone in this country to. the red cross has only 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 kedah public. it's something that we need to be prepared and we need to do is physically distancing 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 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 go even the u.k. and in south africa where. developed new further mutations occur we may see potentially also reduction of the effectiveness of all but some of the vaccine the majority of the gold 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 to be the pace at which a back seems 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 well just as the red

cross warns that the public must play its part to fight the pandemic papers in the united kingdom are increasingly sorry police in the united kingdom are increasingly finding people who break the lock down restrictions leaving home without a reasonable excuse that could mean a 200 pound fine rising to 6400 pounds for a pay to fender's shadi admit stash he found out in force mint is still very inconsistent in offices and sometimes forced to back down and have even appeared to have broken the rules themselves. despite the u.k. being in a full scale national lockdown kovac 9 6 100 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 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 across the u.k. almost 45000 fines have been handed out for coke at 19 breaches but leading by example isn't exactly their strong point you know so if you sit down in a restaurant takeaway service early on through the 43rd. so what are you doing right now. some offices are not as eager to abide by the rules as they are 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 peace later admitted worsening the fines and giving a half hearted apology looking to martin do you know who. is an

operational marker and if it's not take out coffee spreading kind of it it snowballs trip shipley's of certain 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 treat has since been deleted after dozens of angry complaints but still the message is stay at home keep the. from the course review where we have to tighten the we will but we have rules in place we ready now is the moment the single digits matching the observation observance of 2 of the groups although the prime minister himself a spot it's like a ling 11 kilometers away from downing street so is it a case of one rule for me and another for you shouting at that stuff r.t.

london. the russian foreign ministry is warning that latvia's 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 where last month latvia's security services opened a criminal probe into journalists working for the full news and r.t. affiliated news agencies they were accused of violating a sanctions on moscow one of the accused told. curity agents lied in order 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 know. 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 the savoy 1st of all sport take a lot and bolts news and i several times suggest 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 the tree 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 free lance employees of the actions they write and at attacks so like 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 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

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