those of us who watch carefully the russia gate hoax. it will eventually become the foundation for policy the by the ministry has done maybe it's what you do with strong supporters or american liberals the phrasing is so you. i the headlines are right place back and protests across europe half to cope with restrictions at the time i think it comes after countries face a short fall in deliveries of the vaccines a supply of astra zeneca the latest on it can only provide 60 percent of what it promised prompting some e.u. states to look for alternatives. before so finding new sources in order to get fast livery a 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 taking a stand against foreign interference. is lead to take after a 10 year old girl dies filming a black cat challenge shared by the popular social net. working watching r.t. international where it's just gone 7 o'clock am on. the lockdown protests have swept across europe in the netherlands thousands hit the streets weekend against tightened. and violence broke out between protesters and police. i. i i i i i i i

i. i i i i i i i i i i. that. police firing mortar can and then his protest is refused to even started throwing projectiles around a 100 demonstrators were arrested the rallies were spot on the government's extension of rock down restrictions by the queen waits and also said he was considering a curfew and that high ministers condemned the riots is criminal violence well

thousands also marched in spain and denmark table with dozens of arrests there protestors to crying what they see is the authorities mismanagement of the kind of the crisis things will say turn violent clashes in sharing political commentator thomas fassbender told us about the simmering impatience across europe. we're expedience say a combination of certain cultural straights among western european populations but is a strong individual isn't to live but libertarianism you could even say skepticism towards governments towards science on the one side and then object of political mismanagement governmental mismanagement which is partly due to or. naturally produces not being able to provide the capacities but it 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 comply to accept the rules. where european states had pinned their hopes on vaccines to the pandemic that some manufacturers and i warning of severe delays with more his. supply chain issues with vaccinations are causing headaches e.u. officials we've heard from the e.u. 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 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 enormous we're going to deal with it i think over 70 is 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 is no 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 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 slivery 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. the construction of the vast nord stream to the gas pipeline from russia to germany has restarted after u.s. sanctions had force its suspension the project should now be completed by the summer because he's done 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 a 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 united states administration will treat its partners its elyse with a. specked and will not try to force them into neglecting their own national interests and i hold that the new administration will work following the principle of fear 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. well the russian president has responded to the whitey watch video from opposition thinking relaxing a founding claiming that he owns a look juris palace compound on the black sea coast and amid putin dismissed the claims as old arenas and speculation is artist cast yet with more details of this this video was widely promoted by and by anyone with an interest in it so even you tube 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 pick it up and spread it like you know the gospel this video which was itself lacking details but that is a characteristic of 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 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 course is 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. 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 $90000000.00 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 and among them were huge number of miners 2 out of the 3000 people with good detained across

russia about 300 of them one minute 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 and participating in unlawful actions allowed we couldn't add to everybody everyone has a right to demonstrate a right to express themselves themselves but only so long as it's within the law 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 they really this doesn't devolve into the the sort of violence that we saw this on this weekend for the russian president has been commenting on the country situation like it could be some light on the horizon

there let's take 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 despite usada pointing to a flawed and one sided assessment of the facts reporting next is r.t. easily patrik. 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 adp 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 in 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 we should 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 board 3 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 aboard 3 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 data received from the whistle blower on which was to be learned 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 spent more about this with the sporting media expert at his cashmore and also with anna more he's a sports writer and broadcaster. i think don't do decision it was i don't take it not to continue it really i think it's very good commonsense it's very humane it's clean center and also it's mainly state was it you know what we say 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 them. and to make it go to. recite it

has to take it on the chin 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're taking on the chair. of the nice nice is really a slapped a ban on take talkies us who haven't verified their range after 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 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 africa few hours of eve reversible coma we concluded she was brain dead or take talk insists that uses safety is a priority in bands any dangerous behavior but in the town in lawyer specializing in online cases does say that social networks must do much more. 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 content the mind is 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 getting gradually lifted in moscow and elsewhere in russia the president says it's been made possible by falling infection rates with more details is there if an option. russia has been living under lockdown and lead to different pandemic restrictions since 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 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 better to this what we hear from the city mayor so badly and with the numbers of new cases daily go in 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 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. we want 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 home wealth oxfam international says 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 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 while at the wealthy end of the scale of world's richest have already recoup their pandemic losses but it is a very different story for the planet's poorest for them is going to take a decade to recover oxfam or says the number of people living in poverty globally may have increased by hundreds of millions last year while the charities head of inequality policy told me about why the wealthiest have enjoyed such

a rapid rate that. 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 chooks 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 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 sick nurse 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 that billionaires should be making sorry much money sorry watches as we said today the cost of proximity everyone on earth could easily be covered if we were to north salinas in greece and

britain are well. placed if i take gas at protests in the u.s. city of portland again. the country's deportation rules demonstrates it's used on brothers to protect themselves from confronted officers side the immigration and customs enforcement facility in the city it does follow similar protests in the same building shortly after president biden's inauguration and this is a snapshot of some of what happened. my. favorite. tactic. was. political.

meanwhile facebook is facing new privacy concerns are for revelations that it gave the f.b.i. private messages of those who discussed storming washington's capitol building intelligence agency revealed that the information or revealed the information as part of its probe into the riots early 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 capital on the day of the assault a warrant for his arrest has now been issued recent analysis reveals the fast 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 also you tube to stop them being used to plan criminal activity technology expert roger k. thinks that social media platforms lack discipline. the social platforms are under

pressure anyway to choose or their their way are going to get they have not been disciplined properly you know they got pretty fast and lose with people's information and are being chased down now by. various federal authorities and others saying look you guys have to come back into line but also the social media platforms themselves struggling for a rule in the future are changing so i think it's a different environment than it was before january 6th 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 on the platforms have been very reluctant to touch their content want to because it slows down the velocity of their content not what they live on and the other is once you touch it you own it and then they become responsible for the content that's coming out underside that's how the world is looking so fast and

i say when i see international don't forget they can always keep yourself that day to take off social media pages and all sites. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world the politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see that. world.

thinks. we dare to ask. those of us who watched carefully the russian gave hoax oh yes worried that it would eventually become the foundation of policy the biden ministration has done things i mean this is what you do with strong supporters or american liberals the phrasing is so. much. i'm after a time see welcome to

a special edition of going underground the king is dead legendary broadcaster larry king passed away in the past 48 hours after being diagnosed with coronavirus today we're going to look back at an interview i conducted with him at the i.c.a. in london when he launched a brand new show on our t.v. 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 new liberal 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 artes celebrations of a decade of international broadcasting very king as shows politicking and larry king now come to our t.v. on british t.v. he's from 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.