headlines this hour brian police beat back county lockdown protests across europe after current restrictions on titans. becomes one of the countries face a shortfall in deliveries of cope with vaccines the supply astra zeneca the latest to warn it can only provide 60 percent of what it had promised prompting some e.u. states to look for alternatives. look for support in new songs 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. told the new u.s.

president pledges to speed up the vaccine rollout a public health agency chief that makes they've no idea how much vaccine the country has as several states report shortages. construction of the north stream 2 gas pipeline resumes despite u.s. sanctions with poland taking a stand against foreign interference. a very warm welcome from our team here in moscow you're watching r t international with me. now lockdown protests have swept across europe and the netherlands thousands hit the streets at the weekend against titans covert restrictions on violence broke out between protesters and police.

i. i i i. i i i. i. i i i. i. i. at least find a water cannon as protesters refuse to leave and started throwing projectiles around a 100 demonstrators that were arrested as one is response 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 condemned the riots and criminal violence. of thousands also marched in spain and denmark with dozens of arrests protesters decrying what they see as they were 14th mismanagement of the covert client states things also turned violent with clashes and searing german political commentator thomas spender talked to us about the similar impatience across europe. we're experiencing say a combination of certain cultural straights among western european populations but is a strong individual is to look at libertarianism you could even say skepticism towards governments towards science on the one side and then object of political mismanagement governmental mismanagement which is part. due to naturally the producers not being able to provide the capacities but if 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 certain percentage of the population is no longer willing. to comply to accept the rules. meanwhile the european commission is demanding answers from a british ship from british drug maker astra zeneca other vaccine delivery delays which could be down as much as 60 percent and the manufacturers are also warning of severe delays my europe correspondent peter oliver 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 cast iron 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 what we can have to do 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's 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's saying they want vaccines not excuses about why they're not coming forward on your book 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. the u.s. federal government doesn't know how many coronavirus doses are available in the country that admission came from the head of the centers for disease control and prevention in a fox news interview i still so said securing supplies is the biggest problem right now scalable can explain. well 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 grim situation with people continuing to get coated 19 people continuing to die due to the pandemic and now at

this point we do have the newly appointed director of the centers for disease control talking about the fact that the u.s. federal government is in the dark about 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 in 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 lack of 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 the new administration of joe biden has promised to vaccinate one $100000000.00 people within its 1st $100.00 days to achieve a rate of $1000000.00 vaccinations per day but that rate has already been achieved by the trumpet ministration and far exceeded in some areas we had. a higher rate on some days of vaccinations now this was the response so when this was pointed out this is jens psaki the white house spokesperson none of us are mathematicians myself included so i asked our team to do a little math on this so the trumpet ministration did 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 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. construction of the vast ignored stream to gas pipeline from roscoe's to russia to germany has restarted off the u.s. sanctions and that suspension the project should now be completed by the some a. 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. i consider these extra territorial 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 lure ring 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 dushku i hold the united states administration will treat its partnerships allies with the . 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 of the reserve to be world done and constructed this fortuna vessel is expected to lay only 120 kilometers of the pipeline in the danish waters of boy and 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 figure alexina soundly claiming that he owns a luxurious palace compound on the black sea coast about to be appear it in

dismissed claims that as old rumors and speculation andrew farmer 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 didn't even 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 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 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 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 prison spokesperson no less than food talent 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. so 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. 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. president feels they've been commenting on the country's covert situation and it looks like that i 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 in inequality in inequality for century and a stark assessment of the effects of the pandemic on welfare oxfam international also says it's the most at risk is down 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 at the wealthy end of the scale the world's richest have already recruits their pandemic losses but it's a very different story for the planet's poorest of 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 but charities has evan equality 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 core choose increase rapidly and just to put it in context all through 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 sickness 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 all those that billionaires should be making sorry much money 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 really has slapped a ban on tech toys. users who have a verify their age as 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. 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. take top insists that uses safety as a priority and bounds any dangerous behavior but an italian lawyer specializing in online cases says 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 minds 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 when 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 where the access to minors is actually legitimate and legal. over it was strictures could soon gradually be lifted in moscow and elsewhere in russia the president says it's been made possible by falling infection rates as maria the national 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 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 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 and cinemas are open with 50 percent

seating but still an masks on hand sanitizers and gloves 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 that should be done gradiently and while watching the numbers closely. 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 despite pointing to a flawed and one sided assessment of the facts reporting next to his r.t.s. . 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 ads 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 roof 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 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 and 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 that 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 will 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 spent more about this with sports and media expert at least cashmore and author alan moore who's a sports writer and broadcaster. don't do decision it was undertaken not to continue it. i think it's very commonsense it's very humane it's fleet center and also it's mainly state and since you know what we put our hands at the same yet there were issues here we are dealing with there and we've dealt with them and we're moving forward sort of think that it's a good show all our ships 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 better for its reservist as to take it out of the chin but it's only a 2 year bad it was reduced from 4 years remember 4 years is still the most severe punishment ever in the history of sport. 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. facebook is facing new privacy concerns after revelations that they 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 histories of dealing that kelly had been around the capitol on the day of the assault a warrant for his arrest has now been issued. well 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 your tears to stop the bank use to plan the criminal activity technology experts at budget k. think social media platforms lack discipline the social platforms are under pressure anyway to choose your there there are way they'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 january 6th 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 of 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 last you're content 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 but i would r.t. we love to hear your thoughts on all of our stories so detached by following us on social media and leaving your comments that way back at the top of the hour with the latest see that.