well. it. sounds like it. but. i the headlines this hour riot police beat back and he long time protests across europe after code restrictions tightened it comes after countries face a shortfall in deliveries of coby vaccines the supplier astra zeneca the latest to warn it can only provide 60 percent of what it promised prompting some in the states to look for alternatives. and 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. on the construction of the north stream 2 gas pipeline regimes despite hewas sanctions with taking

a stand against foreign interference plus also this hour its lead cracks down on take chalk off for a 10 year old girl dies filming a blackout challenge shared by the popular social network. hello good evening you're watching r.t. international it's just gone 6 o'clock here in the russian capital i looked at protests have swept across europe in the netherlands thousands hit the streets weekend against tight restrictions and violence broke out between protesters and police. i. i i i.

i. i. i i. i. i. i. i. i. i i well place then fired water cannons protesters refused and they even started throwing projectiles around 100 demonstrators were arrested the rallies were sparked by the government's extension of lockdown restrictions by a further 3 weeks and also said it was considering a curfew the prime minister they condemned the riots as criminal violence of thousands also marched across spain in denmark with dozens of arrests there

protesters shouted they were tired of authorities mismanagement of the kind of the crisis and things were so turned violent saying it clashes with police meanwhile european states had pinned their hopes on facts things to ease the pandemic but some manufacturers and i warning of severe delays are europe correspondent peter all of us has more on the story. supply chain issues with vaccinations are causing headaches 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 on 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 our midst but we can have to deal with it i think over seventy's more generally will be delayed because of our stress on 2. depends on 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 shared 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 forward on your book will be due to the slow delivery of the vaccine we were forced to find a new source in order to get fast livery 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 very 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. ok well let's discuss the situation further now because we're joined by journalist and commentator thomas fassbender who also hosts fassbender is weak and r.t. pleased to have him on r.t. international tonight thomas what are your thoughts here because we saw protests across europe in spain in denmark and also the netherlands at the weekend how much does that represent the wider public view and discontent of how the authorities are handling the pandemic do you think. well i'd say what we saw over the weekend in the netherlands and also in other countries entire lock down protests in germany other places was to be expected we're experience say a combination of a certain culture and straights among western european populations that is a strong individual is my only libertarianism you could even say skepticism towards governments towards signs on the one side and then object of political

mismanagement governmental mismanagement which is partly due to naturally produces not being able to provide the capacities but this is not only a fault of the producers this is also and we are discussing this in germany very intensely this is also simply the failure of government structures to cope with the situation so this combination has gone toxic in a way that a certain percentage of the population is no longer willing to or to comply and to accept the rules of course it concerns a certain also political area there's a strong right wing. representation here there is a lot of of those people who have been on the other issues not in line with official government policy over the last years and this is now comes to an eruption

and i i think we've haven't seen the last of it what you think the authorities can do it should be doing that now not doing. it's very difficult we have to give the authorities credit that they haven't been put to a test like this one over decades we can fairly say that all the politicians who are now in power never in never experienced anything like that because even the financial crisis of 20082009 was sort of limited metter and what the last war in europe is long long gone and the people who managed through the war they are all dead and forgotten so we are of course in a situation which is new for everybody it might be i can i can say for my country germany we have a strong federal structure we do not have much centralization there's a lot in favor there's there's some criticism justified but simply say the we news

of government they do not march in. synchronous enough like for example and this is also combined with cultural background they do in the far east because in the far east you have a much higher disciplined population the image has much higher. believe 'd strong wealth already of science strong wealth already of government i'm not talking about only about say non-democratic countries like china but also democratic regimes like south korea japan where we see a completely different figure picture so this is related to or very deep going cultural. attributes and cultural straights do you think that authorities are not just talking about the netherlands but and governments do you think they should be doing more to try and convince the public about the science because often i hear the criticism is well the government saying this but it's not really backing it up with think it's. well they should certainly

be more on the list what what has people are getting tired by being traumas some things where you feel that the politicians they are caught communicating hopes themselves i think that people want from their politicians they want to truth and if the truth is bitter it will be harder to be except at the moment but the politicians they gain respect and or thora to by telling the truth even if the truth is that we don't know. ok interesting look thomas we're going to have to leave it there but ever sir thomas fassbender journalist and political commentator thanks for your time tonight thanks and. now in other news construction of the. gas pipeline from russia to germany has restarted after u.s. sanctions had forced its suspension the project should now be completed by the summer party you can shoot down off brings us up to speed. a special pipe laying vessel called for tuna has been spotted in the territorial waters of denmark 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 that effectively you 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 that when your administration will work following the principle of 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 less to be well done and constructed this fortuna vessel is expected to lay only 120 kilometers of the pipeline in the danish waters a boy and 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. now the russian president meanwhile has responded to the widely watched video from opposition thinker elects in the valley claiming that he owns experience palace compound on the black sea coast and the putin dismissed the claims as old rumors and also speculation so let's talk more about this now with our senior correspondent can see if he's in the studio even when out again. about 90000000 people watched this video so far but this is the 1st time the president has talked about it just take us through what he said today well this this video was why i believe promoted by by anyone with an interest in it so even you jupe was promoting it giving it in recommended videos section to almost to everyone across the entire world which is incredibly rare you had pardoned it western media for example pigott. up and spread it like you know the gospel this video which was in itself

lacking details but that is a characteristic of nevada in the investigations in this particular video. they stipulated that these huge mansion was being built for vladimir putin about a $1000000000.00 worth. you know government complex or whatever have you and they said that this was who have lied to me or putin we've heard the kremlin come out various spokespeople and deny it and now the president himself has come out and said that it's nonsense. i want to answer your question right away nothing that is indicated there is my property it does not belong to me or my close relatives and never did he put it all together and decided to brainwash our citizens with all these materials. the timing of causes very interesting because it was released immediately after the election in the

valley was rested upon his return to russia for violating the terms of his suspended sentence which he's currently currently serving he's now waiting the court to decide on his future and this video was released obviously to make a. lot of noise and to drum up support for him and equipment as a as a as i said has repeatedly come out and said that the president's spokesperson no less than 4 times saying that this is a concentrated effort to destabilize the situation the country both politically and socially will shortly after this video is used to be tense or those protests across the country what it is to pay to say about that well with with regards to the protests yes we did we did see them but the point here is that 90000000 views on that video huge support allegedly for the valley and yet in

moscow for example a city of 12 to 15000000 only about 10000 people came out only about 10000 and many of them had very different you know it genders some some eco activists others want to do you know a better better economic conditions in the country some for alexi the valley and among them were huge number of miners 2 out of the 3000 people that would detained across russia about 300 of them were minors. and those are just the ones that were detained because this is something that in the run up to this protest that it caused a lot of concern miners were being targeted by the opposition in ads basically. on instagram people were telling them to go and attend this protest and it became almost fashionable and this is something that has caused

a huge amount of concern in russia. anything outside the law is not only country productive it's also dangerous you cannot involve minors in participating in unlawful actions. like me or putin added that everybody everyone has a right to demonstrate a right to express themselves themselves but only so long as it's with within the law what's was you know this is a bustling huge city in the best of times you need a permit to hold a demonstration so this is i don't sanction protests in many other countries in the united states for example you stage an unsanctioned liable for jailed in russia it isn't quite as harsh but. very you know there is we're in the middle of a pandemic there are concerns about health nevertheless the opposition is planning another rally on the 31st of january perhaps the hoop for more people larger

attendance because this was somewhat lackluster even according to the opposition and the really this doesn't devolve into the soup of violence that we saw this is this weekend and it's not thanking. the russian presence or to be commenting on the country's cabinet situation and it looks like there could be some light on the horizon we'll update you on that a bit later on in the program. russia's anti doping agency will not challenge the court of arbitration for sports 2 year ban on the country taking part in major international sporting events that is despite usada pointing to a flawed one sided assessment of the facts reporting next is into track. 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 the result it considers that this decision not only contravenes basic principles of fairness but is also warranted in lots of the significant progress made by responder 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 in 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 laborde tree database from a whistle blower i can tell you that the russian side though says that a 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 day to receive 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 but we spoke more about this but the sport i'm your expert at ace cash and also with adam or a sports writer and broadcaster. but i think that decision that was undertaken not to continue it clearly i think it's it's very commonsense it's very humane it's

awfully center and also it's mainly state is it you know what we put around the city yet there were issues here we were dealing with there we dealt with the one we're moving forward sort of think that it's a good show all partnership between that and water and this is what we really need this time to try and eliminate the people like change of its own who are so involved in. it just to get rid of this force and to make it better for its reservist as to take it out of the chain but it's only a 2 year bad it was reduced from 4 years remember 4 years is still in of the most severe punishment ever in the history of sport 2 years 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 it but we'll take it on the chair. ban on tick tock eases you haven't verified that or

a giraffe or a 10 year old girl died while trying to complete a day on the video sharing app the online game called the blackout challenge involves people choking themselves to temporarily pass 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 eve reversible coma we concluded she was brain dead or take talk insists that you safety is a priority in bands and a dangerous behavior but in the talian lawyer specializing in online cases does that social networks must do much more. feet get a. laugh 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 very for cation a child access is 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 tick-tock into this because it's trying to understand where the access to minors is actually legitimate and legal. restrictions could soon gradually be lifted in moscow and elsewhere in russia the president says it's been made possible by falling infection rates more details his written option . russia has been living under lockdown and lead to different pentatonic

restrictions since april and now finally the situation starts getting back to normal stabilising 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 vladimir putin says the epidemic logical situation in the country is gradually stabilizing the number of new infections is decreasing this allows us to cautiously live the restrictions and all this with mass vaccination 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 back to to this what we hear from this city mayor city so bad in with the numbers of new cases daily go in down schools and colleges resume in person classes universities to follow within the next 2 weeks

restaurants and bars closed off to 11 pm but theaters and cinemas are open with 50 percent seating but still an masks on 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 soon but as widely reported inside it should be done grey daily and while watching the numbers closely. almost 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 called wealth oxfam international also says it is the most risk who will stand to be the worst affected. during the pandemic that 10 billionaires made half a trillion dollars in that 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 is enormous so the wealthy end of the scale the world's richest have already recouped their pandemic losses but it is a very different story for the planet's poorest for them it's going to take a decade to recover oxfam or so says the number of people living in poverty globally may have increased by hundreds of millions last year the charity's head of inequality policy told me about why the wealthiest have enjoyed such a rapid rate back. it was an initial hit 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 see their quote use 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 only knowing month so

using 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 job soon the hunger that comes with that sort of very very different story at the bottom it seems immoral to oxfam and to all those that billionaires should be making sorry much money where i'm sorry watch is me as we said today the cost of proximity everyone on earth could easily be covered if we were not serious in greece and billionaire world. police if i take gas at protests in the us is he of portland. against the country's deportation laws demonstrates is used bradleys to protect themselves and confronted offices outside the immigration and customs enforcement the city in the city it does follow a similar protest in the same building shortly after president biden's inauguration yes.