ok. it was. nice of violence breaks out in the netherlands as riots again flare up over new covert curfews following a weekend of on the rest of the country's tough lockdown. it comes after countries face a shortfall in deliveries of covert vaccines key 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 to force to find a new source in order to get fast locally a 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 vaccine rollout a public health agency chief at mit's they have no idea how much vaccine the country has as their for all states report shortages. very well luckily my team here in moscow you are watching r t international with me they care. a 3rd night of rioting has broken out in the netherlands over curfews being imposed to combat the spread of code that crowds of mostly young protesters have been seen torching items setting off fireworks and rampaging through the streets there are also reports of civil unrest in the southern city of believing it follows a weekend of unrest in several locations across the netherlands some of which has turned. prime minister margaret has condemned the violence is criminal the country

already has some of the strictest lockdown measures under the imposing an overnight curfew from 9 pm to 4 30 am flouting the measure tracks and 100 euro fine. q.

q. a bag of thousands marched in spain and denmark with dozens of arrests protesters decrying what they see as the author artie's mismanagement of the kind of a crisis things also term violent with clashes and searing german political commentator thomas fassbender and risk expert professor david alexander talk to us about the simmering impatience across iraq. we're experienced say a combination of certain cultural straights among western european populations but is a strong individual is not to live but libertarianism you could even say skepticism towards governments towards science on the one side and then object of political mismanagement governmental mismanagement which is partly due to

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 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 government said this is one of the greatest risks really faced but they didn't really face up to it have they communicated well enough to explain to people very need to be patient have they provided the support to people who are desperate have they really understood the town while for some some of them actually defined what welfare 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 our 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 our europe correspondent peter oliver has the story supply chain issues with vaccinations are causing headaches for e.u. officials we've heard from me you 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 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 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 shared 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 at 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 coronavirus vaccine doses are available in the country that's 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 as caliber weapon explains. 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 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 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 $1000000.00 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 well ahead of the washington pain center told as early there 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 mcgurn and 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 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

any quality 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 worst affected. during the pandemic that 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 read their pandemic losses but it's a very different story for the plan is poorest for them it's going to take a decades 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 issue here 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 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 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 our billionaires should be making sorry much money we're sorry watch is needed as we said today the cost of drugs are going

to everyone and could easily be covered if we were not serious increasingly in our world. struction of the vast north stream to gas pipeline from russia to germany has restarted after u.s. sanctions had forced its suspension the project should not be completed by the summer parties eco's donna 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 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 effectively 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. 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 fair 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 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. and russian presidents also been commenting on the country's kovac situation and it looks like there could be some light on the horizon we'll update you on data after this very short break stay with us. is your media a reflection of reality. in

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welcome back now italy has slapped a ban on tick tock 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 app the online game called the blackout challenge involves people choking themselves to temporarily pass out however the youngster was found dead in her bathroom. the medics did everything they could to bring the child back to life but unfortunately although the heart immediately started beating again the brain had been starved of oxygen for too long due to the strangulation after a few hours of irreversible coma we concluded she was brain dead to talk insists that user's 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. 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 mind is can see on these networks a social network cannot just say a minor has stated that they are old enough to use the up they should check it if very for cation a child access is the platform and sees violent content the social network would be responsible in this case it's necessary to determine whether the tick-tock social network really has some responsibilities for 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. and russian president has responded to the widely watched video from opposition figure and like

they never only claiming that he owns a luxurious palace compound on the black sea coast but i'm a putin dismissed the claims says old rumors and speculation andrew farmer got more details earlier from correspondent more advanced via this video was why i believe promoted by by anyone with an interest in it so even you tube was promoting it giving it in recommended videos section to almost to everyone across the entire world which is incredibly rare you had pardoned it western media for example pick it up and spread it like you know the gospel this video which was itself lacking details but that is a characteristic of the investigations in this particular video. they stipulated that these huge mansion was being built for vladimir putin about a $1000000000.00 worth. you know government complex or whatever. and they said

that this was who have lied to me or putin we've heard the kremlin come out various spokespeople and deny it and now the president himself has come out and said that it's nonsense. i want to answer your question right away nothing that is indicated there is my property it does not belong to me or my close relatives and never did he put it all together and decided to brainwash our citizens with all these materials. the timing of course is very interesting because it was released immediately after the election in the valley was resting upon his return to russia for violating the terms of his suspended sentence which he's currently currently serving he's now waiting the court to decide on his future 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 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 $90000000.00 views on that video huge support allegedly for the valley and yet in moscow for example a city of 12 to 15000000 only about 10000 people came out and among them were huge number of minus 2 out of the 3000 people the good detained across russia about 300 of them one minute and this is something that has caused a huge amount of concern in russia. anything outside the law is not only country productive it's also dangerous you cannot involve minors and participating in unlawful actions glad we didn't add to everybody everyone has

a right to. demonstrator 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 the really this doesn't devolve into the the sort of violence that we saw this on this weekend. over 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 explained. russia has been living under logged on 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 live 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 back to to this what we hear from the mayor city 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 off to 11 pm but theaters in cinemas are open with 50 percent seating but steel and masks and 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. thanks for joining us here in r.t. international that's all from me vishal and thomas will be with you with the latest at the top of their. will to would be most impacted by having umbrella tax the so-called wealthy. tax would they not be incentivized to do agree. style collapse and profit from the credit default swaps but on america we always said that once they were successful

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i'm actually returns the 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 team after a lifetime spent within the confines of nature nation media larry king talks to me and bianca jagger in front of an invited audience about the 4th estate neoliberal 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 our tease celebrations of a decade of international broadcasting that reeking his shows politicking and larry king now come to artie on british t.v. as for next week spoke to me in front of an invited audience at the institute of contemporary arts in london larry let's begin with that something that malcolm forbes sent the owner of forbes magazine the founder at least said you created

a vacuum and then you filled it what does that mean i don't know what it meant. and i was being our dinner in new york and not conform said been on my shell quite a bit the only conforms. my radio show had really taken off and we started on 36 stations and we were then about 600 stations and i just started on c n n. and i had written like 12 books at the time so he says i guess he meant that i had there was nothing there i created a vacuum and filled it i guess they all left perhaps he was getting at the idea that you change formats just when formats are getting going like for instance obviously cable television new zealand satellite is so much of. of life is timing and luck what right turn left turn if you went out here you may be.