the headlines this hour police. protests across to europe after covert restrictions on title comes up the countries face a shortfall in deliveries of vaccines the supply astra zeneca the latest to warn it can only provide 60 percent of what it had promised prompting some in e.u. states to look for alternatives. before supplying a new song you know what is good for slavery of a reliable vaccine we have concluded a treaty today under which russia will deliver a vaccine to hungry in 3 stages. of

a new u.s. president pledges to speed up the vaccine rollout a public health agency chief admits they have no idea how much vaccine the country has several states report shortages. construction of the north stream to gas pipeline reserves despite u.s. sanctions with a little take a stance against foreign interests there. a very warm welcome from our team here in moscow you're watching r.t. international with me making. our top story this hour lockdown protests have swept across europe and the netherlands thousands hit the streets at the weekend against tightened covert restrictions on violence broke out between protesters and police.

thank you. i. thank you. thank you thank you. thank us. that police found watertown and protesters refused to leave and started throwing projectiles around a 100 demonstrators were arrested the rallies were sponsored by the government's extension of lockdown restrictions by

a further 3 weeks and also said it was considering a curfew the dutch prime minister condemns the riots as criminal violence thousands also marched in spain and denmark with dozens of arrests protested decrying what they see as the all star teams mismanagement of the close a crisis things also turned violent with clashes and so you and. i just got to get with us next to the printer our risk on disaster reduction of university college london david alexander thank you for joining us on the program david a to what extent should the wealth artie's have seen this coming. well we've had riots before in this long emergency in the last 10 months so this is not the 1st time but it's important not to get it out a perspective lockdown does work out what doesn't seem to work so well is communicating lock down and the reasons priorities and the necessity for it. some

people of course maybe people the majority will behave as they should and others perhaps will behave against the law oh we need to understand the role of social media in this we need to understand exactly why people feel that they can be irresponsible about this because it is their responsibility and those are things we really need to understand quickly in order to develop a strategy might help us to stop this kind of thing happening. do you feel the leaders underestimates the will perhaps not giving enough consideration to the level of impatience people feel lost almost again for strich sins. we all feel it's a no doubt the leaders trail it true but have they communicated well enough to explain to people worried need to be patient have they provided the support to people who are desperate have they really understood. it so seldom actually defined what welfare is absolutely fundamental to all of this especially for people

who have seen their income completely or partially disappear so in fact if those things are in place there is perhaps less excuse for writing less reason to create them perhaps less opportunity to do it looking at these scenes of unrest coming from across europe do you suspect there's more of this to come. i think there probably is we've had riots in florence one thing is that they were perhaps a little over traumatized by the local media so that's one thing to consider this must be kept in perspective it's not europe erupting it's a few cases of a relatively few people among a large majority during entirely different things behaving in a different way so let's remember that it had to have conditions very really kind of see something happening to the majority of society and i don't think that this is really showing us the way of the future yes they may be more run is yes people are frustrated but we are also trying to court together to get this virus program

under control but of course we now have the vaccine manufacturers warning of massive delays so how might that suspects the fragile situation in countries such as the netherlands. well one thing i haven't see properly communicated is that making distributing and utilizing vaccines is not like manufacturing broom handles or something essentially a very delicate process that hurt least 6 or 7 stages where things can go wrong manufacturing the vaccine requires stringent checks to take place in the factory and outside of it and then we could have problems with transportation distribution here in italy somebody told the refrigerator also result was a loss of 800 black seeds but that is typical of the kind of human error that can occur just about any way so i think 1st of promos we've got to see the vaccine program was a very delicate one there were cries very much explained te's in order for it to

work and it simply isn't possible to manufacture vaccine says that by tough as if it were simply the manufacture of which it sold. and we know that the netherlands is the last to e.u. nation to begin vaccinations what else could the dutch government have done in tackling the pandemic. you know we had plans for tackling the pandemic we had scenarios from which plans could be mace we do we did know how to joint out planning we could not have comprehensive planning but above all we did have adequate potential to activate the plans there was a catheter in the plans and the reality is all of this happened but i think we find that the plans didn't extend as far as the recovery fluting the vaccine part of it but we know quite a bit about manufacturing vaccines in the light of other diseases that have required to create accelerated supply of products seems so really we could have done

a lot more to put that information to use in extending the scenario that we've actually had since about 2008 for a worldwide pandemic this needed to be taken more seriously on the face of it it was because government said this is one of the greatest risks we faced but they didn't really face up to 8 now that's true in a white variety of countries professor david alexander from the investing college london thank you very much feels time. meanwhile the european commission is demanding on says from a british drug maker astra zeneca of a vaccine delivery delays which could be down by as much as 60 percent of the manufacturers also warning of severe delays in europe correspondent peter all of a 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 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 what we can have to do with it i think the 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 is no 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 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 the 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 u.s. federal government doesn't know how many coronavirus vaccine doses are available in the country without admission came from the head of the centers for disease control and prevention and a fox news interview where she also said securing supplies is the biggest problem right now let's go live to what is caleb maupin in new york the town's kaleb good to see you and how can you tell us about the current vaccine rollout in the u.s. . while the united states is currently surpassed the grim milestone of $25000000.00 covert infections plus

420000 deaths since the beginning of the pandemic it's quite a grim situation now with the infection rate continuing people continuing to get cold and 19 people continuing to die due to. to the pandemic now at this point we do have the newly appointed director of the centers for disease control talking about the fact that the us federal government is in the dark about how many and how much of the vaccine is available take a listen i would say one of the biggest problems right now is i can't tell you how much vaccine we have and if i can't tell it to you then i can tell it to the governors and i can tell it to the state health officials. now thousands of appointments for vaccinations have been canceled across the united states due to a lack of vaccine supply at this point here in new york there have been 23000 vaccine appointments that have been canceled virginia there was

a hospital that canceled 10001st dose appointments in south carolina there was a hospital that canceled 6000 vaccine appointments after it received only 450 doses in hawaii there was a hospital that canceled 5001st dose appointments and now we've got governors from across the united states basically demanding the new administration help them and figure out how this problem can be resolved our biggest problem is really simple it's a lot go back. and i know every other state has the same problem we have so many distributors we can't supply them and you will see distributors who run out of supply. now the new administration of joe biden is facing widespread criticism that their goal of 100000000 vaccinations is a bit chulo that was the goal they set for the 1st 100 days and this was the

response that we heard when that criticism was raised that this is jen psaki the white house spokesperson. and then mr mathematicians myself included so i asked her team to do a little math on this so the trumpet ministration date minister a total of about $17000000.00 shots that's about less than 500000 shots a day what we're proposing is to double that to about $1000000.00 shots per day. so it appears that the new administration does not know exactly how it is going to solve this problem of not adequate vaccine supply meanwhile the infection rate continues to rise across the united states quite a serious situation. telep thank you for that. from new york. construction of the vast no stream to gas pipeline from russia to germany has

restarted the u.s. sanctions have forced its suspension the project should not be completed by this summer. 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 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 united states administration will treat its partners its allies with the. specked and will not try to force them into neglecting their own national interests and i hope 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 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 of mame 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 forwards to world collapse of the project. the russian president has responded to the widely watched video from opposition figures alexina valley claiming that he owns a luxurious palace compound on the black sea coast lattimer putin dismissed the claims as old rumors and speculation andrew fowler got more details earlier from correspondent mike garcia. 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 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 violin 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 vladimir 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 dennis 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 arrested upon his return to russia for violating the terms of his suspended sentence which he's currently currently serving he's now a weight in the court to decide on his future 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 and certainly after that video was posted we then saw protests across the country so what did mr putin. say about 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 and among them were huge number of miners 2 out of the 3000 people that would 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 in participating in unlawful actions glad we didn'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 the really this doesn't devolve into the the sort of violence that we saw this on this weekend. russian fans also been commenting on the country's coded situation and it looks like there could be some

light on the horizon we'll update you on that a little later. almost every country in the world is likely to see the biggest increase inequality for a century and a stark assessment of the effects of the pandemic on wealth some international also says it's the most at risk who stand to be the worst affected. during the pandemic that $10000000000.00 is 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 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 interest this enormous. at the wealthy end of the scale the world's richest have already recouped their pun demick losses and it's a very different story for the planet's poorest for them it's going to take

a decade to recover some also says the number of people living in poverty global leave may have increased by hundreds of millions last year but charities head of inequality policy told me about why the wealthiest have enjoyed such a rapid rebound. 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 courtrooms increase rapidly and just to put it in context after the financial crisis over 10 years ago it took 40 years for billionaire wealth to get back to where it was when the crisis hit this time it's taken only 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 jobs and the hunger that comes with that sort of very very different story at

the bottom it seems immoral to oxfam and to others that billionaires should be making sorry much money we're sorry watch is needed as we said today the cost of proximity everyone on earth could easily be covered if we were to not serious increase in billionaire well. it's only have slapped a ban on tech talk users who haven't verified that age stuff after a 10 year old girl died while trying to complete a dare on the video sharing app the on line game called the blackout challenge involves people choking themselves to temporarily pass out however the youngster was found dead in her bathroom. getting in at the end of 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 irreversible coma we concluded she was brain dead. to insists that

uses safety is a priority and bans any dangerous behavior but an italian lawyer specializing in online cases is that social networks must do much more to get i mean. 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 the very for cation 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 whether this video of the child was actually viewed by tick-tock or not but the italian data protection authority has opened an investigation against to talk into this because it's trying to understand

where the access to minors is actually legitimate and legal. over the restrictions could soon gradually be lifted in moscow and elsewhere in russia the president says there's been made possible by falling infection rates as maria explains. 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. situation in the country is gradually stabilizing the number of new infections is decreasing this allows us to cautiously lived 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 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 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. facebook is facing new privacy concerns after revelations that it gave the f.b.i. private messages of those who discuss stormont washington's capitol building the intelligence agency revealed the information as part of his probe into the riots

earlier this month one such complaint has been filed against new york resident christopher kelley 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. ways that analysis reveals the vast majority of criminal cases filed by the u.s. justice department uses social media information on line data is used in more than a 3rd of all convictions but house democrats are also demanding radical changes from facebook twitter and your chair to stop them being used to plan criminal activity technology expert roger k. think social media platforms lack discipline the social platforms are under pressure anyway to change your there or there are we're 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 others saying look you guys have 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 during or 6 what's interesting is section 230 that so far protecting these platforms from being responsible for what's on their sites and there is kind of the understanding that u.s. lives that if you touch it you are on a platform to be very reluctant to touch their content one because it slows down the velocity of their content and that's what they live on and the other is once you touch it you own it and you become responsible for the content that's coming out of your site. by joining us here at r.t. international we're back with the latest headlines at the top of the hour saving.

but the pandemic no certainly no borders and is blind to nationalities. has emerged we don't have a theory we don't have the facts in the whole world beats to be the chief. judge of. commentary crisis sleep time to time so we can do better we should. everyone is contributing each of our own way but we also know that this crisis not go on forever the challenge is creating the response has been masked so many good people are helping us. it makes us feel very proud that we are in it together.