thank you well then you. know. the headlines this hour riot police beat back county lockdown protests across europe after covert restrictions the title. comes off the country's banks the shortfall in deliveries of covert vaccines keys the ply astra zeneca the latest to warn it can only provide 60 percent of what it had promised prompting some e.q. states to look for alternatives. to force a find a new source in order to get fast delivery of reliable vaccine we have concluded a treaty today under which russia will deliver a vaccine to hungry in 3 stages. while the new u.s.

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

i i i. i i. i. i i i i i i. i. half i was fired water cannon as protesters refused to leave and started throwing projects around a 100 demonstrators were arrested in rallies was 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. thousands also marched in spades and deadlock with dozens of arrests protesters decrying what they see as the old far right is mismanagement of the cove a crisis things also turned violent with clashes and searing german political commentator thomas fassbender and risk expert professor david alexander talk to us about the simmering impatience across to europe. we're experienced say a combination of certain cultural straights among western european populations but is a strong individual is to limit libertarianism you could even say skepticism towards governments towards science on the one side and object of political mismanagement governmental. mismanagement which is partly due to net surely 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 a certain percentage of the population is no longer willing to or 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 in for is absolutely fundamental to all of this especially for people who see their 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 the vaccine delivery delays which could be down by as much as 60 percent other manufacturers are also warning of severe delays correspondent peter all of the has the story. supply chain issues with vaccinations are causing headaches for 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 carmarthen 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 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 due to the slow delivery of the vaccine we were forced to find a new source in order to get fast livery of reliable vaccine so it is a great honor and a great pleasure to inform you that we have concluded a treaty today under which russia will deliver a vaccine to hungry in 3 stages sputnik very could well be set for approval for use across the european union by february the infrastructure to give out vaccines is in

place in most member states the problem is they've not got the jobs to put in people's arms. the u.s. federal government doesn't know how many coronavirus that theme 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 feel those that securing supplies is the biggest problem right now help more reports. 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 the head of the washington pain center told us earlier that pre-election promises don't always become reality but it is a real disconnection between the government which obviously the ultimate responsible and the suppliers such as pfizer return and all the other there are bugle industry we should really be working and in the globe with respect to this pandemic that we have in across the planet 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 political trauma center mean only campaign really don't pan out in terms of what you get behind the desk and you have to really deliver with these patients. 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 is the most at risk who 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 that the wealthy end of the scale the world's richest have already recoup 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 the charities head of

inequality policy told us 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 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 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. struction of the vast nord stream to gas pipeline from russia to germany has restarted after u.s. sanctions had forced its suspension the project should now be completed by the summer artie's equals dollars 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 other countries because nomic pursuits. i hold the united states administration will treat its partnership elyse with a. 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 left to be well done and constructed this fortuna vessel is expected to lay only 120 kilometers of the pipeline in the danish waters of 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. for the russian troops it's also been commenting on the country's current situation and it looks like there could be some light on the horizon we'll update you on balance after this break. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of

the world of politics sports business i'm sure business i'll see you. the world is driven by dreamers shaped by one person with those words. thinks. we dare to ask. those of us who watch carefully the russian gave hope. it would eventually become the foundation of policy by the ministry is going to be what to do with

transporters or american liberties be bracing. for combat it's only has slapped a ban on tick tock users who haven't verified that age is off to a 10 year old girl died while trying to complete a death on the video sharing app the online game called the blackout challenge involves people choking themselves to temporarily paul south however the youngster was found dead in her bathroom. the medics did everything they could to bring the child back to life but unfortunately although the heart immediately started beating again the brain had been starved of oxygen for too long due to the strangulation after a few hours of irreversible coma we concluded she was brain dead. to talk insists that uses safety is a priority and bounds any dangerous behavior but an italian lawyer specializing in

online cases these the social networks must do much more. we 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 minors 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 after 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 with 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 whether access to minors is actually legitimate and legal. the russian

president has responded to the widely watched video from opposition figure alexei novell me claiming that he owns a luxurious palace compound on the black sea coast not a mere putin dismissed the claims as old where most out speculation andrew farmer got more details earlier from correspondent rod garcia. this video was 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 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 4 times saying that these 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 elected a volley 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 like we're putin added that everybody everyone has a right to demonstrate a writer 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. restrictions that could soon gradually be lifted in moscow and elsewhere in russia the president says it's been made possible by falling infection rates as movie if an auction explains. russia has been living under lockdown and lead to different pandemic restrictions since april and now finally the situation starts getting back

to noble 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 lift the restrictions but always with mass vaccination in full swing here in russia and more and more people get an 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 off to 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 gradually and while watching the numbers closely. many thanks for joining us here on r.t. international we're back in 30 minutes later.

hello in welcome to cross top where all things are considered i'm peter lavelle those of us who watched carefully the russia gate hoax always worried that it would eventually become the foundation for policy the biden ministration has done exactly this and what to do when trump supporters are american liberals embracing the soviet experience.

to discuss these issues and more i am joined by my guest patrick headings an employment he's the editor and founder of the 21st century wire and here in moscow we're joined by bob and she is a political analyst and editor and you know some internet media project telling process rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciated it was going to patrick can play as well by good ministration is started its foreign policy approaches 0 and of course russia is as always close to the top for some reason and those of us didn't watch the russia gate hoax over these years we always lamented as i said in my introduction that it would bleed into policy well it is done that ok well we we have mixed signals i mean we can talk about the of the 5 year extension on the new start treaty that's about to expire next month which is good news and we always cheer for good news but i wonder if there's going to be linkages because we still have this rhetoric of russia

interfering meddling in american politics so it's never never spoken out why wouldn't allow that the united states medals in every country is. internal politics here so a mixed bag patrick but as i like to i'd like to stress is that it is dictation story russia gate has bled into policy and that's something that we all worried about go ahead with something that we were warning about from the very beginning is the danger of allowing a sort of official conspiracy theory to permeate into you know public life into the national discourse and of and ultimately into foreign policy those who are the most dangerous part of it and that's very regrettable unfortunately and i think this the fact that none of this actually makes sense from a logical point of view and it's purely based on power politics internal u.s. power politics this doesn't really buy.