very real a. struggle. pfizer slashes deliveries of its coma vaccine and europe and north america after production delays prompting threats of legal action from italy and poland. also this hour serbia enters talks with russia to start its own production of the sputnik the job we hear from a renowned serbian film director about why he trusts the vaccine. speeds is i was told by someone who probably in serbia voters is one that you should receive the same stuff the same group. and president promises that students will be able to go back to university part time after wave of protests we hear from french

undergraduates about the impact of campus closures where's the spiritual country and where and that's about to go to our students. you're watching our 2 international coming to you live from the russian capital this and every hour into the program. the polish government has threatened to sue the u.s. pharmaceutical giant pfizer that's after poland received only half the promised doses of the company's coated vaccine this week. i think that the decision could be made next month if the supplies are not delivered in accordance with the manufacturer's declaration italy is also considering filing a lawsuit against pfizer after a delay in vaccine shipments at a time when mortality rates are again surging in the city of hundreds of coffins a covert victims are waiting burial at

a cemetery severe shortages of the job are being seen across europe and north america picks up the story what was supposed to be an orderly vaccination across the western world is turning into a debacle supply of the desperately needed vaccines is suing to a drip in europe and the kava and states are collaborating to get their hands on the few deuces available. the health care of italian citizens is not a negotiable issue the vaccination campaign can not be slowed down especially for given the 2nd doses to the many talents who are already received the 1st phase or has decided that now is the best start to upgrade their european production plant which means for italy for example around 30 percent fewer deuces will be delivered in the foreseeable future tally and agri ready planning to sue pfizer these are

people's lives we're talking about after all and it seems the corporate bosses they never even asked anyone and last friday we were all surprised by the announcement of pfizer down biotech to have a delay immediately called the c.e.o. of pfizer and i explained to him that it is of utmost importance that we get the doses that are fixed in the contract pfizer's european production plan supplies europe and canada much of the world the plant in the united states for now is solely focused on satisfying america needs this is left canada literally begging its southern neighbor for a handout murmur mine american friends help us so we need help once again you have a new president no more excuses we need your support. unfortunately for canada things aren't rusian the southern side of the border either the highest number of

infections in the world the deaths and in this race against time they're losing we will have literally nothing left to give as of friday what does that mean it means if we don't get more vaccine quickly our new supplier vaccine we will have to cancel appointments this is crazy this is not the way it should be we have the ability to vaccinate a huge number of people we need the vaccine to go with it the way it's handled in the states is that the federal government every week ships out that scene quotas to various states trumpet boasted that they have millions in reserve but that may have been untrue according to various governors who say there's nothing left vaccine quotas the states are fooling the dwindling number of duces of being delivered. the bottom line is that we don't have enough banks since it's a jewel problem we need more we need to get them out more quickly it's soo bad that

people have engaged in what's being called vaccine tourism so americans were all over the country indeed even canadians a driving to states where vaccines are available to get the shot florida for example we know right now based on. our reservation process to me and it's very late and i think. i we had a real problem last week with trying to get last week. when the traffic was a horror you know we we could be the most site nationally but they did just 1st come 1st serve it's been a fiasco from the get go from day one of the pandemic limbo whether it all started out allies jump to very each other to buy up all the mosques and ventilators leaving neighbors with nothing and they boosted about buying up billions of duces of vaccines which hadn't even been produced again believe in poorest states with

nothing and now that they hear there's not enough everyone. hungry has become the 1st e.u. member state to strike a supply deal with russia for sputnik 3 the country's foreign minister said that hungary will receive up to $2000000.00 doses and this comes a month after neighboring serbia started taking deliveries of sputnik me the 1st essence worden start in early january in belgrade is in talks to start domestic production we're non serbian a film director in gave us his views on the russian job. i'm very happy to be. exposed to the possibility to get. a russian rock scene because it's may as i was told by some of the prominent serbian doctors is one of those that he used to receive the same style and the same rules when i was 13 years old the idea of getting bucks ian who was always counting on some percentage that people are not

going to react positively but a majority of the people who grow up salute received ideas so a national accident is a continuation of their history when i say i want russian oxygen it's an ideological i didn't through creation everything is becoming about politics today whatever you do it the same is with boxing so let's hope that russian job will be in the future since it's a continuation of production a russian side that is going to be much more spread that you believed before it started. chancellor merkel is threatening to close germany's borders of other e.u. countries fail to take better precautions against the spread of the coronavirus cannot cross live to i think there are in berlin peter tell us about the situation

in germany and what a lot of the chancellor. well during the 1st wave of the corona virus we saw a number of e.u. nations close down travel with their fellow member states including germany there's a lot of effort being put in place to stop that happening again during this wave even though some of the the numbers particularly the numbers of people in hospital have risen far beyond they ever were at those periods back in the spring of 2020 but there was a summit on thursday evening of e.u. leaders that took place virtually we've heard from the fund ally and the e.u. commission president saying that she's desperately wants to keep borders open both that only for non essential sorry old non-essential travel should not be carried out and in fact anybody who only knows this journeys that are deemed essential should take place there's actually

a new color coding system come out when it comes to looking at which areas have the highest infection rates across europe they're going to be colored dark red on the map of the block anybody traveling from one of those dark red zones has to get a test done before they leave and then quarantine when they arrive at their destination or the german chancellor and a lot of people in the government here in germany are particularly concerned about the mutated strains of covert 19 that have been going around the world the one that originated in the u.k. the one in south africa and the one in brazil as well chancellor merkel has said that she wants to keep those borders open for now but is looking into the possibility should the situation change down the road of closing them we can do anything we like but we will not succeed if others are not working in parallel we need to make sure that everyone around us is doing the same otherwise we have to look at measures such as entry restrictions. well one of those neighbors is looks

and burg one of the smallest member states of the european union their foreign minister has been on the radio here in germany pleading with angela merkel to keep border to cross border travel open saying that if it was closed down then looks and berg's health service would grind to a halt saying 60 percent of those working in hospitals and other frontline medical services in look sumburgh well they commute in from other states france or germany or elsewhere what we've also heard is from the european council president sharma shell he said on thursday night as he wrapped up the summit that was taking place that the borders would stay open for now at least. we have to keep borders open to keep the internal market functioning but at the same time the need to be restrictions on non-essential travel. or closing borders is being viewed as

a last resort by european leaders but a resort that they're willing to go to should they feel it be needed artie's peter are reporting live from berlin thank you. the french president has promised extra support for students after an outcry over campus closures due to the pandemic and i know micron said they'll be able to return to class part time younger students should have the same rights and the same needs is an employee and if he or she needs it it's a student should have the possibility to return to university in person once a week this fellow student unrest in paris over the brutal impact of month long restrictions aside from being confined to their accommodations many have been left with no means of funding their studies as a strain is taking its toll as art is charlotte devinsky found out. this is emma she's a 21 year old was a student in paris who dream is to become

a history teacher but like students across france and even the world the comb very dependent makers turned life upside down and inside out in october there was the governor on this idea that every university would because then i just stayed up my place and i was remotely running for the world so mr i want perspective and also having to sit in that some of the best years of my life wasted i have some friends that are really strong handymen but they don't call tell me too much about this there's a kind of shame of not being able to properly those concerns have been heard by the president says he look to ensure universities provide daily meals price to one euro a day it's a picture playing out across the higher education system in france and for some the

distress is manifesting in tragic ways one student threw himself out of a 4th floor window in little he remains in a critical condition another student was restrained off the threatening to do the same according to the observatory of student life a 3rd of france's 2700000 university students are suffering from depression anxiety and loneliness many also run the risk of dropping out and tells me she's had enough and now with other students they are taking action. universities are in limbo the government to suggested a limited number will be able to return to the lecture hall soon but for the majority life will remain a. cycle of online lessons and isolation all from the cramped cell like sizes of

the student accommodation it's like a prison for me. i mean i like to thought argument i've chosen to that burden but i'm not sure i really be able to stay in to sound argument after the crazies because there is like so much memories that are in the get you into this place it's not that easy and i come for cures for more let's say certain years then i have a brain because i don't see anyone. i can't go that measure because there's not so much activity outside sometimes i'm ashamed of my country i mean where in friends were supposed to be a rich country and where in that event he will talk of our students in disintegration i think the best for me next year if the situation is the same. doing a gap here and then go back to my stitches my normal cities there is help for those feeling that the weight of the pandemic is too much one student union has taken to

twitter to advertise where students can get help the health service says the number of people suffering from depression doubled between september and early november last year the majority of cases from those aged 18 to 24 the government is committed to increasing the number of psychologists available to help students emma says she would benefit from speaking to a psychologist but there is a long wait the students we've spoken with are angry and despondent they see 3 years they've been raising issues over their living conditions a lack of resources and teachers with the government and nothing was done they feel that this is a crisis that could have been avoided but instead they've been left high and dry charlotte even ski r.t. paris. president biden is seeking to extend the new start nuclear arms

treaty with russia which is due to expire soon the white house press secretary made the announcement and it's already been cautiously welcomed by moscow. i can confirm that the united states intends to seek a 5 year extension of new start as the treaty permits the president has long been clear that the new start treaty is in the national security interests of the united states and this extension makes even more sense when the relationship with russia is adversarial as it is at this time new start is the only remaining treaty constraining russian nuclear forces and is an anchor of strategic stability between our 2 countries that's great news providing that this stance won't be accompanied by any additional conditions and if what is going to be prolonged is the current version of the treaty the strategic arms reduction treaty took effect in 2011 and runs out on february the 5th and kept each country of strategic nuclear warheads at $1550.00 the agreement also limits the number of missiles and bombers capable of

carrying nuclear weapons trump administration had said it would not prolong the arms pact with russia and in recent years moscow has repeatedly voice alarm or lack of dialogue with washington saying the loss of crucial treaties could spark a new arms race russia has also accused the us every shaping accords to its own advantage. we're not going to bring in the life of former pentagon official michael maloof joe biden wants to extend the new start treaty is not a promising sign. but it's minimal it in lease gets gives the. the existing treaty another 5 year years of life but there's no additions there's no negotiation or other things that need to be controlled but at least this is a beginning i think it does minimize biden's.

discourse with the russians and does the bare minimum but i think it is a good start. a crawlin spokesperson has said that russia welcomes the move from the u.s. but needs more time to study the details of washington's proposal as its concerned about demands washington has been making up until now do you think that they can strike a compromise here well it depends upon what the the acceptance or didn't denial of the in any terms will be it's my understanding that it's going to be just a mere extension of the existing treaty there as i said there are other areas that should be covered but maybe if relations can improve over time they might be able to open up discussions into those other areas and some of those areas would it willing would include your tactical your tactical nuclear weapons which are not covered by the existing treaty and delivery systems and perhaps they could even

agree to cut back on the number of warheads over time and that's something that did occur when obama. negotiated. to start a new start 1st on the mill trump was of course highly critical of the deal last year are concerning wanting china to become a party to the agreement is there any chance of that happening. i don't think so even it's my understanding even the russians are not eager to go that route for now because they know that would be a nonstarter i think if there is to be anything the united states needs to separately begin to work with china and maybe at some point they can merge the 2 treaties together but the you get this is a step by step situation. and it's going to be it's going to be very very difficult with the top administration they just didn't

like any arms control agreements period. at least in this case we have a mere extension of an existing treaty if we had to go and negotiated a new i think o.b.o. a serious problem when jen psaki was there are announcing the desire to go ahead an extended this treaty she also referred to relations between russia and the u.s. being adversarial is there any chance of that improving is this a good 1st step. i think it's a minimal step it's just to keep your toe in the water as it were but it's not a full blown a let's let's work things out and and come to terms on spheres of influence or working together on counterterrorism none of those things this is the bare minimum and you know this is we're only 3 days now into this new administration so let's just hope that something that can improve what i am hearing is the possibility that

if things continue to sour as they have by the democrats toward russia there could there could ultimately be a downgrade in their relations and i would not like to see that i think we need to improve those relations because of the challenges that are ahead former pentagon analyst michael maloof thank you for joining us on the program this evening. like. former cia director drug john brennan is claiming the biden administration is planning some drastic action against the more radical trump loyalists looking forward is that the members of the biden team are now moving and laser like fashion to try to uncover as much they can about what looks very similar to insurgency movements that we've seen overseas that focus on internal threats seems to be resonating among the population with more than half of americans saying domestic enemies pose the biggest threat to their way of life that's according to

a new poll and just 8 percent think the biggest danger comes from overseas as we discuss the issues with our guest. donald trump's followers who were participating in over $600.00 rallies and protests and events for the last 5 years without a hint of violence suddenly are called the violent terrorist wing of the trump supporting part of the republican party the number of people in anti foreign b.l.m. or about 7 percent of the democrat party the number of people who attacked the capitol if you are stipulate that that is indeed what happened is like point 003 percent of the republican party the idea that we need to predicate an entire national movement toward laser like focus on domestic terrorists is to me a giant joke but it's got a sad part line because people are going to be made to suffer for that who had nothing to do with it and don't want that the trumpet ministration has been protecting the american people from violent groups both on the left and the right

unfortunately i think part of it is it's biden is trying to politicize what has happened we have had looting and violence in the throughout 2020 by black lives matter type folk. the starbucks in the my office was burned out we had violence last night in portland in seattle again not done by people on the left side so i think it's unfortunately the new president trying to be political instead of actually focusing on whether it's be done you have right here that usual left this belief which is unification it just means agree with us and if you don't agree with us we're going to deep platform you we're going to get you fired from your job are going to get you kicked out of events dare idea of unification just means agree with us or shut it it's not normal in a civilized society to try to get people fired who disagree with you politically as happened in google and and other big tech companies it's not normal for

a tech backend processor to basically cut the elect. christie have a group like parlor and those are normal behaviors in a civilized society in the in a democratic society in a side that deluged free speech. a report commissioned by the french government on the country's colonial past in algeria has acknowledged historical wrongdoing but stopped short of recommending an official apology ahead of its publication present emanuel mccrone said paris has no intention of saying sorry the report proposes setting up a memories and truth commission and changing the way colonial history is taught in schools although it fails to look at allegations of systemic torture by the french in algeria many aspects of french rule in algeria and of the war of independence in particular are fiercely disputed by the 2 countries that conflict lasted 8 years and ended in 1962 and cost the lives of some 1500000 algerians around stands on the

issue of french atrocities in algeria used to be very different well running for the presidency he promised to recognize them colonize ation is a part of french history it is a crime is a crime against humanity is genuinely barbaric and it is part of the past which we must confront including by apologizing to those against whom we committed these acts we ask people in both countries what they think about france's refusal to apologize. so you miss your little apologise and not enough moreover the time hop will build you in people were killed by colonialism we must not lie to each other. france is a colonialist country and without colonialism france would not have succeeded france has committed genocide and war crimes from 832962 with over 10000000 victims . plus our diplomacy is weak and our power is also a weak historical truce remain hidden we want to know our real story to prove to

the world that francis committed crimes in algeria and i'm going to our history has already been falsified historians say a nation without a history is an ignorant one moreover through the history books we know that france still rules here. of course france should have apologized we must recognize that we committed a great wrong over several generations so one apology is still necessary but not sufficient to do this and also both but i don't think france should apologize for the colonies ation of algeria after the evian accords france withdrew from algeria so from that moment on contracts were made between the 2 countries and it's not for a country to apologize for what was done in the past. that's a wrap up of the day's top news for now but don't forget you can always find us on many of your favorite social media platforms like twitter and facebook up to the minute reports.

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hello and welcome to cross talk where all things are considered i'm peter lavelle defenders of big tech often exclaim if you don't like their platforms then build your oh well on this edition of crossfire we talk with some intrepid individuals doing just that against all the odds will they succeed. to discuss these issues and more i'm joined by my guess we camp in washington he is host of redacted tonight on r.t. america as well as author of bullet points and punch lines in cleveland we have taylor who doc she is a journalist and activist for priest beach and free press and in moscow we have susie dawson she is co-founder of peng quake dot com all right crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump a new time you want and i always appreciate it ok we're going to taylor person in

cleveland a lot is going on online right now we had right up to before the american election we have essentially big tech colluding to crush a story that could influence the outcome of the election then we have after the election we have the events of january 6th in washington and a drums banned from most platforms and then we have another platform parlor that was gone and it seems like it's kind of crawling back and taylor what is the state of going to what's going on right now because later in the program going to talk about a new platform that's coming up and it's kind of for me it's kind of like weeki leaks came into being because journalists wouldn't do their job media wouldn't do their jobs so others are thinking about challenging be big tech because they're not keeping the promise of a fair playing field.