you've invested over $5000000000.00 to assist you in these an article that will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic. i . the headlines this hour riot police beat back anti lockdown protests across europe after coded restrictions tightened it comes after countries face a shortfall in deliveries of covert vaccines the supplier astra zeneca the latest award it can only provide 60 percent of what it promised prompting some states to look for alternatives. were forced to find a new source in order to get fast delivery of reliable vaccine we have concluded a treaty today under which russia will deliver a vaccine to hungry in 3 stages and construction of the north stream to gas pipeline regimes despite u.s.

sanctions with berlin taking a stand against what they say is foreign interference and italy cracks down on tick tock after 10 year old girl dies filming a blackout challenge shared by the popular social network. hello good afternoon just gone 4 o'clock in moscow you're watching r.t. international now lockdown protests have swept across europe in the netherlands thousands hit the streets weekend against tightened cohabit restrictions and violence broke out between protesters and police.

i. was as if you can see more to count in this protest has refused to me even started throwing projectiles around a 100 demonstrators were arrested in the rallies were spot on the government's extension of brought down restrictions by a further 3 weeks and also the government saying it was considering a curfew the dutch prime minister condemned the riots as criminal find those thousands also marched across spain and denmark and dozens arrested their protesters shouted they were tired of our team's mismanaging because of the crisis

things also turn violent clashes played plagues me more european states had pinned their hopes on facts things to ease the pandemic but some manufacturers and i warning of severe delays our europe correspondent peter all of us has the story. supply chain issues with vaccinations are causing headaches for e.u. officials we've heard from me even health commissioner acknowledging that there is a problem and saying that manufacturers need to provide some casting guarantees when member states will receive their jobs the leader of the irish government may come martin has said it's there could be a delay in the vaccine rollout in his country due to the knock on effect of the delay that they're not getting the jobs from the vaccine manufacturers on time while the italian prime minister just sepic come to is accused vaccine manufacturers of breach of agreement and putting lives at risk these delays in

deliveries constitute serious contractual violations which cause enormous harm to italy and other european countries with direct repercussions on the life and health of citizens no astra zeneca puts every problem in its what we can have to do with it i think the over seventy's more generally will be delayed because of esther's onto. the pins of these negotiations and earlier this month pfizer announced a 3 to 4 week delay in their vaccine arriving in a u. member states while astra zeneca the u.k. based manufacturer that vaccine could well be approved for use within the e.u. by friday of this week have said that there will be a 60 percent reduction in the number of vaccines arriving in european union member states in the 1st quarter of this year. well there's no sure jewel delay to the start of shipments of our vaccine should we receive approval in europe initial volumes will be lower than originally anticipated due to reduced yields at

a manufacturing site within our european supply chain this is prompted some nations to look elsewhere hungary has purchased enough doses of the russian sputnik v vaccine to inoculate 1000000 of its citizens budapest's saying they want vaccines not excuses about why they're not coming. due to the slow delivery of the vaccine we were forced to find a new source in order to get fast delivery of reliable vaccine so it is a great honor 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 sputnik 3 could well be set for approval for use across the european union by february the infrastructure to give out vaccines is in place in most member states the problem is they've not got the jobs to put in people's arms. among most every country in the world is likely to see the biggest

increase in inequality for a century and a stark assessment of the effects of the pandemic on well folks i'm international also says to you it is the most at risk you stand to be the worst affected during the pandemic that 10 billionaires made half a trillion dollars in that period which would be enough to prevent anybody across the world from being pushed into poverty and would be enough also to pay for a vaccine for everyone at the other end of the spectrum we know millions of people have lost jobs livelihoods a roof over their heads so the contrast this enormous. well at the wealthy end of the scale of world's richest have already recoup their pandemic losses but it's a very different story to be heard for the planet's poorest for them it's going to take a decade to recover oxfam also says the number of people living in poverty globally may have increased by hundreds of millions last year let's get more on this now

from max lorson. international was head of inequality policy your time thanks for coming on max firstly how have the rich managed to get richer during this pandemic when most people have got poorer well although there was an issue here to stock markets back in march of last year when the pandemic 1st started since then the stock markets have been booming and the richest people in the world hold most of their wealth in stocks and shares so that's why you've seen the wealth of very probably was billionaires like blogs or saw or indeed jeff bezos who is the richest man in the world see the increase rapidly and just to put it in context after the financial crisis over 10 years ago it took 4 years for billionaire wealth to get back to where it was when the crisis hit this time it's taken the knowing moment so you see a boom time for billionaires world as we know ordinary people all around the world

are facing the fear of the virus the fear of death and sickness but also losing their jobs and the hunger that comes with a very different story at the bottom you know just on that point of the acceleration of the riches of the rich is that going to have this pandemic has unfolded in the fact that. many people will have to close down their businesses or of had to stay at home and just can't operate as they did before but the larger companies thing to be allowed to. definitely i mean you've seen the biggest hit has been to small businesses it's been to people in the informal sector who often didn't have sick or employment rowan's the ones who called work crew harmony can't get on zoom you know have to get out there for you to work putting their lives at risk they're the ones who suffer the most and the majority of them are women as i report says and i'm a very very high rates for those from minorities and black people as well where you see 2 black people dying for every white person in some parts of the u.s.

so that's that's the story of the baltimore is at the top yes you've seen this huge increase in wealth with the owners of the biggest companies the owners of stocks and shares and that doesn't need to happen you know there is a history in extraordinary crises like me so taxing the rich taxing extraordinary profits you know in a time of war we're talking of crisis it seems immoral to oxfam and to all those that billionaires should be making sorry much money when sorry much is needed as we said today the cost of vaccinating everyone on earth could easily be covered if we were not cygnus increase in billionaire wealth and when you say that max i'm sure any rational person listening think will last a brilliant idea why doesn't it happen so you know. from your experience why doesn't it happen. oh of the richest people on earth have enormous power as you can imagine going to this week it's a virtual thing but it's still

a meteor down false which is the. the world's elites come together and they have enormous political imprints but it is possible to see change happen argentina for instance just last month introduced an extraordinary tax on wealth and the increase in wealth because of the pandemic more countries could do that over the next year and we've seen the i.m.f. of all people have recommended extraordinary taxes on wealth to help pay for the recovery for a vaccine so it can be done but just needs to be the will to face down the billionaires and ensure that they are not making huge profit out of this crisis just talking finally about the global distribution of vaccines it seems that many african countries are yet to receive a single dice his faults is that. they can it's the fault of our economic system so you have a situation where pharmaceutical corporations have exclusive rights so we just saw the shortages because of astra zeneca not being able to produce enough the same for

far as meanwhile you have all the factories are the companies sitting are you go because they are not connected to these big corporations we must see open source vaccines we need to do a sharing of the technology so we can mass produce new specs into everyone on earth otherwise you have a situation as we do at the moment where knowing now 10 people in the majority of developing countries cannot hope to be vaccinated before 2022 at the earliest which is dangerous for them but also dangerous for the world because more the vaccine the more the virus mutates the more likely it is that existing gregson's will become ineffective so absolutely we need to vaccinate the world now the way to do that is to tax the richest news that money to mass produce a safe and effective vaccine all over the world instead of respecting the profits of pharmaceuticals and the bank accounts of. max really get to tell it you look going to have to leave it there and i ran out of time but i was max wilson he helps

fund international's head of inequality policy thanks for coming up thinking. construction of the fast north stream take gas pipeline from russia to germany has restarted after u.s. sanctions had forced the suspension the project should not be completed by the summer because donald brings us up to speed. a special pipe playing vessel called for tuna has been spotted in the territorial waters of denmark and now why this is important it is because this particular ship along with the company that owns it what got on the list on the latest on the newest list of u.s. sanctions that are aimed at de reeling this whole project now if russia is to succeed and to complete this pipeline it would allow it to double the amount of natural gas supplies to germany berlin has been saying that these sanctions are effectively foreign interference into something that is strictly

a subject of relations of russia and germany have a listen. they consider these extraterritorial sanctions to be inappropriate. as we've reported several times these the sanctions direct to do german and european companies and we fundamentally opposed them. by putting this vessel and some other vessels in the region under the sanctions essentially it's not the 1st time when the united states are trying to just completely derailed the north stream to project and also russia is saying that it is political pressure and effectively washington is trying to push out a competitor russia out of the market washington itself finds quite a lowering because washington has been promoting the idea for quite some time that europe should be buying natural gas from the united states and not from russia but according to the russian president vladimir putin he recently expressed hope of

that with a new president in the white house washington maybe soon will become more understanding and world play a more fair game when it comes to the country's economic pursuits. i hold the new administration of the united states will treat its. it's allies with respect and will not be trying to force them into neglecting their own national interests and i hope your administration will work following the principle of fair competition so the work on the pipeline has resumed completely in defiance and in spite of all the efforts and all the measures that washington is taking to prevent it from happening just to give you an idea as to how little there is left to be well done and constructed this fortuna vessel is expected to lay only 120 kilometers of the pipeline in the danish waters that by the end of may and that would complete the project in the territorial waters of that country and from that

moment on all that will be left is some 28 kilometers of the pipeline in the german territorial waters and that said and from that moment nothing can stop north stream 2 from going operational but obviously we'll have to see if washington will take any more last ditch efforts to world collapse of the project. russia's anti doping agency will not challenge the court of arbitration for sport 2 year ban on the country taking part in major international sporting events as despite started pointing to a flawed one sided assessment of the facts reports. it could be that we finally reached the end of the so-called russian doping scandal for moscow this isn't the worst case scenario but isn't the best case scenario either well after the court of arbitration for sport or cas turned down an appeal against

a 4 year ban of the russian sport and its full status the russian side still had an option to challenge that decision and the swiss supreme court but it decided not to go for it i can tell you that recently cas reduced the baton from 4 to 2 years during which we still won't see the russian flag or hear the russian anthem such major sport events ask for instance the upcoming summer olympic games in tokyo this year or the winter olympic games in beijing and 2022 and the world cup in qatar and 2022 as well the russian anti-doping agency or rw saddam maintains that it's not guilty of the manipulations it's being accused of but it wants to turn the page and begin work to finally restore the proper status and its full rights

for the regret the result has been deemed noncompliance with the world anti-doping code although it did not commit any wrongdoing as expressly acknowledged by result it considers that this decision not only contravenes basic principles of fairness but is also warranted in light of the significant progress made by rosado during the reinstatement process and which has been again expressly acknowledged by wanda after years of the so-called russian doping scandal when the authorities were accused of running a doping program one of the officials to restore the russian anti-doping agency and its proper status was that the russian side was supposed to hand over the lib oratory data. on the test samples of the russian athletes to the world anti-doping agency and once that handover happened water said that it found manipulations with the database and so this was something that eventually led to the punishment

against the russian team plus at that time the international anti-doping officials said that they were in possession of a copy of the moscow bore tree database from a whistle blower i can tell you that the russian side though says that while the international anti-doping officials had loads of time to study all that data in fact they were doing it for almost a year the russian side it didn't have enough time to do the same thing to produce a proper response and its defense plus the russians are saying that they never received or got access to that copy of the database from the whistleblower which they say isn't a fair thing and the course of the trial result was on the bill to verify the authenticity and integrity of the data received from the whistle blow on which want to rely on it to support its case however despite all that the russian side is

accepting the decision even though it disagrees with some of the conclusions but the russians are happy that it's a 2 year ban instead of a 4 year ban and besides this is welcoming the approach towards innocent russian athletes that will still be able to compete and they're happy about the fact that there is no collective punishment so like i said no further appeals from russia the punishment stays as it is as it's been ruled by cas 2 years and following that this could be the end of it finally we spoke more about this with the sports media expert at his cash who are also without a more he's a sports writer and broadcaster. i think to do this isn't it was odd to take it not to continue appealing i think it's very good common sense it's various you mean it's athletes center and also it's mainly state and say that you know what we put our hands and say yet there were issues here we are dealing with there we dealt

with that we're moving forward so i think that it's a good show all partnership between. this what we really need this time to try and eliminate the people like change of its own who are so involved in dalby just to get rid of this force and to make it better for the express artist as to take it on the chin but it's only a 2 year that it was reduced from 4 years remember 4 years is still the most severe punishment ever in the history of sport to yes it is still quite severe but nevertheless at this time in history i think russia was quite sensible just to say we're maintaining our innocence we don't agree with that but we're taking on the chin. now the russian president has responded to the wiking porch video from opposition figures in the valley claimed that he owns a luxurious palace compound on the black sea coast and imitate him dismissed the claims as

a laundry miss and speculation. i want to answer your question right away nothing that has indicated there is my property it does not belong to me or my close relatives it will never existed. well actually release the details video of the property on his you tube channel claiming billions of dollars were spent on the right thing a palace here the black sea for pigs in the video has already cocked up around 19000000 views it went online shortly after he was arrested at a moscow airport after arriving back from germany where he'd been receiving medical treatment this attention saw large scale protests in several russian cities on saturday resulting in almost 4000 arrests. italy has slapped a ban on tick tock you since you haven't verified their age after a 10 year old girl died while trying to complete a dare on the video sharing app the online game called the blackout challenge

involves people choking themselves to temporarily pass out however the youngster was found dead in her bathroom. the medics did everything they could to bring the child back to life but unfortunately although the heart immediately started beating again the brain had been starved of oxygen for too long due to the strangulation after a few hours of universal book karma who concluded she was brain dead. or take talk insists that uses safety is a priority and bans any dangerous behavior in the kalyan lawyer specializing in online cases says that social networks must do much more. clearly the story of this little girl is truly tragic it makes us reflect on the role of social networks in the lives of minors yes parents must pay attention and control their children but there must be social control of the constant the miners can see on these networks a social network cannot just say a minor has stated that they are old enough to use the up they should check it if

the very for occasion a child accesses the platform and sees violent content the social network would be responsible in this case is necessary to determine whether the tick-tock social network really has some responsibilities with this video of the child was actually viewed by tick-tock or not the italian data protection authority has opened an investigation against to talk into this because it's trying to understand whether access to minors is actually legitimate and legal. restrictions can soon gradually be lifted in moscow and elsewhere in russia the president says it's been made possible by encouraging infection rates russia has seen less than 20000 new cases in the last 24 hours you can get more information there from our correspondent rick but he joins us good afternoon so how is the president then describe the current situation in the country wow finally some of good news russia has been living under lockdown and later different pandemic

restrictions things april and now finally the situation starts getting back to normal stabilizing the authorities say it's still a long way to go but at least the dynamic is positive these are the official numbers in the last 24 hours for the 1st time since november less than $20000.00 cases registered across russia it's time to begin lifting some of the restrictions president why report says. the epidemic logical situation in the country is gradually stabilizing a number of new infections is decreasing this allows us to cautiously live the restrictions and always with a massive. it's a nation in full swing here in russia and more and more people getting immunity to the virus the situation here in the russian capital is getting better to this what we hear from this city mayor so badly and with the numbers of new cases daily go down schools and colleges resume in person classes universities are to follow

within the next 2 weeks restaurants and bars close after 11 pm but theaters in cinemas are open with 50 percent seating but steel and masks and hand hand sanitizers and blogs are still our best friends here we must use them in public places we expect some of these restrictions to be lifted but as widely reported inside it should be done gradiently and while watching the numbers closely back to you ok thanks maria for the update there was an artist referral option. facebook is facing new privacy concerns after revelations that it gave the f.b.i. private messages of those who discussed storming washington's capitol building the intelligence agency revealed the information as part of its probe into the riots earlier this month one such complaint has been filed against new york resident christopher kelly facebook provided the f.b.i. with his log in history revealing that kelly had been around the capitol on the day of the assault

a warrant for his arrest has now been issued recent analysis reveals the vast majority of criminal cases filed by the u.s. justice department use social media information and online data is used in more than a 3rd of all convictions but house democrats are also demanding radical changes from facebook twitter and new to stop them being used to plan criminal activity technology expert roger k. thinks that social media platforms lack discipline. social platforms are under pressure anyway to change your there there are way of going to get they have not been disciplined properly you know they got pretty fast and loose with people's information and they're being chased down now by. various federal authorities and other thing look you've got to come back into line but also the social media platform to sell struggling for a rule in the future are changing so i think it's a different environment than it was before dinner is that what's interesting is

section $230.00 that so far protecting these platforms from being responsible for what's on their sites and there is kind of the understanding of us law is that if you touch it you own the platform to be very reluctant to touch their content one because it's slows down the velocity of their content not what they live on and the other is once you touch it you own it and they become responsible for the content that's coming out or side. watching us international being ships like manila nice a fart a day here i will be back again they were the headlines and more stories about this .

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we're going to look back an interview i conducted with him at the i.c.a. in london when he launched a brand new show on our team after a lifetime spent within the confines of nature nation media larry king talks to me and bianca jagger in front of an invited audience about the 4th estate neoliberal inequality and the race for the white house. i spoke this week to someone who has interviewed every president since nixon it was part of our tease celebrations of a decade of international broadcasting that reeking his shows politicking and larry king now come to r.t. on british t.v. as for next week spoke to me in front of an invited audience at the institute of contemporary arts in london larry let's begin with that something that malcolm forbes said the owner of forbes magazine the founder at least said you created a vacuum and then you filled it what does that mean i don't know what it meant. and i was being our dinner in new york.