this hour's headlines stories follow. every vaccine in europe north america production delays prompting threats of legal action from its. talks with russia to start its own production of this but. we hear from barbara nunn serbian film director of. exposed. the russian rock scene because it's me as i would. be used to deceive the.

president must crawl the. students will be able to go back to university park. after a wave of protests french undergraduates. compass closures. the new rich country and where have you been. one minute past 8 pm here in the russian capital my name is you know me and you're welcome to. the polish government threatened to sue us pharmaceutical giant pfizer. poland received only half the promised doses of the company's covert vaccine this week. i think that the decision could be made next

month if the supplies are not delivered accordance with the manufacturer's declaration italy is also considering filing a lawsuit against pfizer after a delay in faxing shipments at a time when martella t. rates are again surging in the city of polder more hundreds of coffins of covert victims are awaiting burial at a cemetery severe shortages of the job are being seen across europe north america or senior correspondent were up against the it 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 canada 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 last friday we were all surprised by the announcement of pfizer down biotech to have a delay a mediately 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 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 most deaths and in this race against our own 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 of 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 very. seem 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 a being delivered. the bottom line is that we don't have enough bank since it's a jewel problem we need more and we need to get them out more quickly it's soo bad that people have engaged in what's being called that scene tourism so americans all over the country indeed even canadians a driving to states where vaccines are available to get their shot florida for example we know right now on. our reservation that to me and it's very. i think i. think we had a real problem last week with trying to get last week. that traffic was more on the way we could get to get most the last week but they did just 1st come 1st. it's

been a fiasco from the get go from day one of the pandemic remember when it all started our allies jumped 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 leave in poorest states with nothing and now that they hear there's not enough for everyone. agree has become the 1st e.u. member state to strike a supplying deal with russia 1st but like the be hungry and foreign minister said the country will receive up to 2000000 doses. due to the slow delivery of the vaccine we were forced to find a new source in order to get foster livery of reliable vaccine so it is a great on and a great pleasure to inform you that we have concluded a treaty today under which russia will deliver

a vaccine to hungry in 3 stages. when it comes a month after neighboring serbia started taking deliveries old sputnik v the 1st doses were ministered in early january belgrade is in talks to start domestic production were known serbian film director emir. gave us his views on the russian job. i'm very happy to be. exposed to the possibility to get. a russian vaccine because it's may as i was told by some of the prominent serbian doctors is one of those that we used to receive the same style and the same crude but i was thinking 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 to safe ideas so a national accident is a continuation of the 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's the same is with boxing so let's hope that russian job will be in the future since it's a continuation of production. russian signs it is going to be a much more spread that you believed before it started. keeping the program in europe chancellor merkel is threatening to close germany's borders have other e.u. countries fail to take better precautions against the spread of the coronavirus peter all of her reports from berlin. well during the height of the 1st wave of the coronavirus pandemic last spring european member states did shut down across border travel in germany was one of those that did that now there's a huge effort taking place right now to stop that happening again on thursday night

there was a summit of e.u. leaders that took place of the truly where they they tried to work out what the situation is regarding this following that we heard from on the line the e.u. commission president who said that all nonessential travel around the block must be put to a stop saying that anybody who didn't need to make a journey shouldn't be making that journey there's also a new color coded system mapping system for the e.u. with a dark red section now being introduced for those areas that have the highest infection rate of covert 19 is also new rules from people for people traveling from bo's areas you'll have to have a covert test before you set off and you'll have to quarantine when you arrive at your destination there's a lot of concern across europe and here in germany in particular we've heard senior

figures from the chancellor herself to senior members of her cabinet as well saying how worried they are about the mutated strains of covert 19 that have been doing the rounds mutations from the u.k. from south africa from brazil that have been prominent ones that have been discovered so far what chancellor merkel has said is that she's willing to keep the borders open for now but that could change in the future 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 or one of those neighbors is looks and berg 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 truck cross border travel open saying that if that was closed down then looks and burke's health service would grind to a halt saying 60 percent of those working in hospitals and other frontline medical

services in looks and burke well they commute in from other e.u. 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 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. the french president has promised extra support for students after and not cry over campus closures to to be pandemic and money will mccrone said they'll be able to return to class part time 'd younger students should have the same rights and the

same needs as 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. be unspent fellow student on rest in paris over the brutal impact of months long restrictions and from being confined to their accommodation many have been left with no means of funding their studies on the strain is taking its toll on sorority charlotte dubin ski found out. this is 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 and this idea that every university would because then i just stayed up my place and i was remotely running for the world said mr i want perspective and also

having the feeling that. some of the best years of my life wasted i have some friends that are really strong man demand that they don't call told 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 need all 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 constant cycle of online lessons and isolation all from the cramped cell like so i says of the student accommodation it's like a prison for me. i mean i like she thought partment i've chosen to that burden but i'm not sure i really be able to stay in the south argument after christmas because there is no like so much memories that are in to get you into this place it's not that easy and i come for peace for more let's say certain years then i need to have

a break because i don't see anyone. i can't go outside that measure because there's not so much activity outside sometimes i'm ashamed of my country i mean where friends where she goes to be a rich country and where in that event he will 2 of our students in this situation i think the best for me next year if the situation is the same. doing a gap here and then go back to my street is my normal cities there is help for those feeling that the weight of the pun demick 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 must

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 for years the. been raising issues over their living conditions a lack of resources and teaches 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 solid even ski r.t. paris. now a report commissioned by the french government on the country's colonial past in algeria has knowledge historical wrongdoing but stopped short of recommending an official apology ahead of its publication the manual mccrum in fact said paris has no intention of seeing story the report proposes setting up a memories truth commission and changing the way a colonial history is taught in schools although it feels to look at allegations of

systematic torture by the french authorities in algeria many aspects of french rule in algeria and of the war of independence in particular are fiercely disputed by the 2 countries now about conflict ended 8 years lasted years ending $968.00 it cost the lives of iran one a half $1000000.00 jury and president mccrone stance on the issue of french atrocities in algeria though used to be quite different while running for the presidency he promised to recognize them colonized 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. well we asked people in both countries what they think about france's refusal to apologize. where you measure to apologise is not enough moreover the time hard

to build your and 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 weak historical truths remain hidden we want to know our real story to prove to the world that francis committed crimes in algeria. all of 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

a lot of both but i don't think france should apologize for the colonization 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. president biden is seeking to extend the new start treaty with russia which was due to expire in 2 weeks' time it is the last remaining nuclear pact between the 2 nations the white house press secretary made the announcement it's being cautiously welcomed by water. 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 is said to run out on february 5th it kelps each country strategic nuclear warheads at $1550.00 the agreement also limits the number of missiles and bombers capable of carrying nuclear weapons the troubled ministration had said it would not prolong the arms pact with russia in recent years moscow has repeatedly voiced the alarm over a lack of dialogue with washington saying the loss of crucial treaties could spark a new arms race russia has also accused the us of reshaping accords to its own advantage former pentagon analyst michael maloof believes extending the treaty is necessary but it's not enough. 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 it's my understanding that it's going to be just a mere extension of the existing treaty 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 other areas would include 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 the obama negotiated new start 1st a. former cia director john brennan is claiming that biden administration is

planning some drastic action against the more radical trump loyalist looking forward is that the members of the biden team are now moving in laser like fashion to try to uncover as much they can about what looks very similar to insurgency movements that we've seen overseas the focus on internal threats seems to be resonating among the population with more than half of americans saying to mess that enemies pose the biggest threat to their way of life according to a new poll just 8 percent think the biggest danger comes from overseas i discussed the issue with a number of guests. 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 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 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 folke. 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 what are you to 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 the vents darr idea of unification just means agree with us or shut up 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 electricity of a group like parlor and those are normal behaviors in a civilized society in a democratic society in a side that values free speach. the muscle is offering to help the new u.s. administration speed up its vaccine relied that proposal from the retail and tech giant came just hours after joe biden moved into the white house we are prepared to leverage our operations information technology and communications capabilities an

expertise to assist your administration's vaccination efforts our scale allows us to make a meaningful impact immediately in the fight against covert 19 and we stand ready to assist you in this effort we ask imus on the comment on the timing of the letter essentially help offered immediately after the truck team departed the oval office spokesperson has said that the suggestion they waited to offer assistance for political reasons is simply role they did meet with trump officials to offer assistance but that the fence has not been enough to convince many the drug companies had the vaccine they knew it was going to work days before the election but amazon stilling is pretty disgusting if in fact they could have helped the traffic ministration amazon is now offering china joe help to get the vaccine out to america so in other words amazon chose to let americans die instead of doing

this jury in the trump admin obviously it's politics and optics over people shameful amazones suddenly offered to help the biden administration with the rollout of the vaccine because orangemen baton was more important than caring for fellow americans well after a peek earlier this month earlier almost 200000 new coronavirus cases reported in the u.s. on thursday we spoke to political commentator chadwick were some questions about the timing of the letter. if that's credible that amazon had been secretly working with the trumpet ministration good for them but of course the fact that they wait to announce it and you know i think that the question there would be how long had they been working with the trumpet ministration you know certainly if it was before the election you know and then they wait till after the biden operation to announce it that's a little shady that seems like a big deal you know if they had just been always sort of planning to go behind the

scenes and help with this and the kind of benevolent service to the to the country that has made them so badly run rate well the by the way the lock down has made amazon incredibly wealthy ok so amazon profited so much out that virus so they waited until after biden's to sort of make a move on this so it just seems suspicious that amazon even if they were working with the trumpet mr a shouldn't previously and i imagine they would have to that some sort of role previously and do to sort of ramp up for whatever massive action they're planning to take to help with the distribution. workforce in the energy sector meanwhile is looking on as joe biden takes over the presidential reins boom buster business show examines next whether the u.s. oil and gas industry can survive. the.

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boom bust the one business show you can't afford to mess i'm rachel blevins in washington coming up the new biden ministration is getting to work and wall street is on a high but how long will that lot will jobless claims still above 900000 will discuss flaws labia majora growth in 2020 and the trend could continue with political officials as former president trump revoked his own rule on his way out the door that china's top telecom companies are calling on the new york stock exchange to reverse the plan to ban them from creating an us market their request comes just hours after biden takes office we have a lot to get to celeste get started. the nordstrom to pry.