looking forward to that without. yanks this is what happens to pensions in britain. you watched as a report. the headlines this hour riot police beat county lock down protests across europe after covert restrictions it tightened. when it comes after countries face a shortfall in deliveries of code it invites thieves a key supply astra zeneca the latest to warn it can only provide 60 percent of what they did promised prompting some e.q. states to look for alternatives. before supplying you know what is good for slavery of reliable vaccine we have concluded a treaty today under which russia will deliver a vaccine to hungry in 3 stages. for the u.s.

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

i. was pleased to find water cannon as protesters refused to leave and started throwing projectiles around a 100 demonstrators were arrested the iranians were sparked 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. while thousands also marched in spain and denmark with dozens of arrests protesters decrying what they see as legal thora te's that mismanagement of the code the crisis things that also turned violent with clashes ensuing german political commentator thomas fassbender and risk expert professor david alexander talk to was about the simmering impatience across europe. we're experienced say a combination of certain cultural straights among western european populations but is a strong individual is to liberate libertarianism you could even say skepticism towards governments towards science on the one side and then the object of political mismanagement governmental. mismanagement which is partly due to or naturally

produces not being able to provide the capacities but if this is not only a fault of the produces 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 taught to comply and to accept the rule was this needed to be taken more seriously on the face of it it was because governments said this is one of the greatest risk faced but they didn't really face up to it have they communicated well enough to explain to people worry need to be patient have they provided the support to people who are desperate have they really understood. it so some of them actually defined what we're known for is absolutely fundamental to all of this especially for people who see the income completely or partially disappear so in fact if those things are in place there is

perhaps less excuse for writing less reason for it and perhaps less opportunity to do it meanwhile the european commission is demanding answers from british drug maker astra zeneca as a vaccine delivery delays which could be down by as much as 60 percent other manufacturers are also warning of severe delays our europe correspondent peter all of us has the details. supply chain issues with vaccinations are causing headaches for e.u. officials we heard from me a huge 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 roll out 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 we're going to do it and 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'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 out on your book the 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 corona virus vaccine 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 where she also said securing supplies is the biggest problem right now caleb moore 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 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 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 term the administration they minister in total 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. let's go live now to dr john dombrowski the c.e.o. at the washington pain center thank you for joining us on the program now the president biden has pledged 100000000 people will get the job during his 1st 100 days in office how likely is he to hit that call when it is very soon and she doctor thought you said they're not going to make it just going to be about 63000000 and that's about as best they can do what you're seeing now or you know wanting to get elected you know with political promises but then there's you know the direction. he's not going to make it. hard up be out front of the disease control and prevention as most of the government doesn't know how much vaccine is available the how concerning is that. well debt is a real disconnect between the government which obviously the ultimate responsible

and the suppliers such as pfizer mcgurn and other pharmaceutical industry we should really be working hand in glove with respect to this pandemic that we have in across the planet how many people really need this vaccine and obviously we need to be doing triage it's great to have everyone on in america to get this but we should always focus on the elderly and the sick and those people who are more risk from dying of this virus that everyone else we need to try because there's a limited supply. well if they know several state governors the highlighting vaccine shortages how might that affect the rollout is it going to be a lot or a depending on where you live in the u.s. . goes back to my 1st point in terms of medicine or lottery but more importantly who needs it the most in medicine we always do this if you're young and healthy you're going to get medical care right now because you'll make it if you're old and sick you go to the front of the line and we've done this on the battlefield anywhere in medicine in terms of emergency room we take people who are sick or 1st and people with colds and things that you'll wait save think for this in this terms

of a rollout that the good news is we now have supply chains such as amazon who is now all the sudden ones to help this administration out in terms of getting product placement which is also which be positive i think if i didn't miss ration is accusing its predecessor of a chaotic vaccine well that is that i'm anti the case do you think well i i'm not so sure i guess always political points to be wagered to one but this is science and these are patients' lives and small chips up like i don't think are very helpful i think what we need to do is ok let's focus on what the problem is now in terms of getting the supplier of these vaccines supply chain working out and patients who need to go 1st go 1st so that's nice to do a cheap shot but i think it's more poorly but what are we going to do today and tomorrow yet the new administration is saying it just suffered a lack of information during the transition of power that how much of that is to blame and how much has the in seeming unseemly political dog size of the possible

of those so affected it's the vaccine program do you think. i think right exactly it's this political dog fight you're welcome points to be you know one year in office now let's man up and manage this problem that we have and again it's working with supply chain the suppliers where's the greatest need where's the elderly populations where the sickest among us let them go 1st and then we'll roll it out as we go on down the population like again this is true yasha i think it's a smart way to move forward. john dombrowski the c.e.o. of the washington pains that thank you very much for your time. well 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 on wealth oxfam international also says it's the most at risk who stand to be the west affected. during the pandemic the 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 well that the wealthy end of the scale the world's richest have already recreates their pandemic losses but it's a very different story for the planet's poorest for them it's going to take a decade to recover oxfam also says the number of people living in poverty globally may have increased by hundreds of millions last year 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 choose 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 in 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 are the ones that billionaires should be making sorry much money sorry watch is needed as we said today the cost of drugs are going to everyone and could easily be covered if we were to not serious increase and billionaire world. instruction of the vast ignored stream to gas pipeline from russia to germany has restarted after u.s. sanctions have forced a suspension the project should now be completed by the summer artie's igor stan of

brings us up to speed. a special pipe laying a 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 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 other countries become nomic 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 of the resolve to be world 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's it 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. italy has slapped a ban on tech talk users who haven't verified their age that's after a 10 year old girl died while trying to complete a dare on the video sharing out the online game called the blackout challenge involves people choking themselves to temporarily pass out over 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. or tic toc insists that use the safety is a priority and bang for any dangerous behavior but an italian lawyer specializing in online cases those that social networks must do much more. if you 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 constant 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. 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 to talk 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 legitimity and legal. in a few hours the latest article of impeachment against donald trump will be officially delivered to the senate ahead of what will be

a historic 2nd trial trump's accused of inciting insurrection at the capitol on january the 6th and comes barely a year after his previous impeachment the trial itself won't start for another 2 weeks and lawmakers have been tussling over the timing but democrats are pushing for a quick trial while the republicans try to hit the brakes there saying it's important to ensure due process and all the traumas party is on the same page 10 house republicans voted for the impeachment if convicted it's trump could well be barred from ever holding public office again for getting thoughts next to justin robert young who hosts the politics politics politics party thank you for joining us on the program always nice to see you now just in some republican senators say it's unconstitutional to push forward impeachment charges against a president who has already left office have they got a point. whether or not they have a point it's not going to stop this trial from happening this was something that

was faded as soon as the january 6th capitol riots occurred obviously there is a lot of acrimony that came from donald trump's refusal to admit that he lost on november 3rd and his example there will stand throughout the rest of american politics whenever somebody doesn't want to give up the ghost but that his refusal allowed a window for something really ugly to happen that happened the question now is as trump's influence fades exactly how much time does anybody in the senate want to spend on this impeachment trial which is unlikely to see a conviction how much of all of this latest trump in pain do you think if they repair a piece lifing the republican policy any kind of recover. there is no doubt

that there is a split here but this is just yet another symptom of a larger problem the the republican party was obviously adrift enough in 201520162 allow truck to affectively hijacked what is certainly compared to the democrats a far more organized party so that's really where this begins he was able to bring a lot of excitement and a lot of votes into republican into the republican column now that he is accepting and he is exiting on such a controversial level all these politicians need to decide are they on the old republican side or the you more populous side of republican politics is about the country club or the dive bar right if the republicans can overcome that disunity at the question is whether the policy can

even survive in its current form what do you think. i know i think that the republican party will be around for a long long time i don't think that we're at the point where are there of our 2 major parties are going to go away any time soon what i do think israel is that these parties do shift and change they shift priorities that they shift where they are going to go and i think that right now if you look at the actual election results that happened you saw a lot of suburbs filter into the democratic. column and a lot of the city's a lot of working class people including minorities filter into the republican column so i think that with all that shift the question that everybody needs to bet on right now specifically those that are going to run in 2022 where do you think the party's going to be in 2 years when everybody's got to go into

a booth and press a button well what do you make about these reports that donald trump has been planning to establish his own political posse i mean how likely is that and how could it influence american political and social landscape. donald trump is going to be an influential voice in american politics for the next 10 years at the very least however i don't think that anybody who is the biggest donald trump fan on the planet would tell you that organization is that man's strong suit so i find it oh a little ridge to think that he would start his own party however i do think that he will be somebody that. republican politicians will have to pay attention to the you're going to have a lot of people courting his favor including sarah huckabee sanders is former press secretary who announced today that she's going to be running for governor of

arkansas. thank you for joining us on the program just a robot young host of the politics politics politics point guard thanks very much thank you. all covered restrictions 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 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 situation in the country is gradually stabilizing the number of new infections is decreasing this allows us to cautiously

lived the restrictions. and always 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 said 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 ludmer put inside it should be done gradiently and while watching the numbers closely. many thanks for joining us here nazi and to national we're back in 30 minutes with the latest headlines.

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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 before the state 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 artie's celebrations of a decade of international broadcasting that reeking his shows politicking and larry king now come to r.t. on british t.v. from next week spoke to me in front of an invited audience at the institute of contemporary arts in london larry.