so many good people are helping us. it makes us feel very proud that we are in it together. iran approves of russia's covert vaccine and now plans joint production in an exclusive interview with r.t. the country's foreign minister tells us why iran's backing sputnik v. separately india says it's nearly ready to approve the russian vaccine with the country's moscow envoy saying he's already had the job. be expected again next couple of weeks our support regrets you know prove that good people. will be available to you immediately. a 3rd night of violence in the netherlands as riots return against new coded

curfews following a weekend of on the rest of the country's top lock down. times there is a vaccine vexation between britain and brussels and ethical ating brown where for supplies it sees the u.k. call out the e.u.'s plan to tightly controlled medicine exports. a warm welcome it's 10 pm here in moscow and you're watching r.t. international with me thank you erin well 1st before our headline news of lattimer putin and joe biden have held their 1st phone conversation since the new u.s. president's inauguration the 2 leaders discussed several topics from the ongoing ukrainian conflict to the covert pandemic both presidents also welcomed an agreement on extending the new start to arms reduction treaty also the us president stressed that america will give

a response to quote any harmful acts by russia vladimir point putin pointed out though that stabilizing bilateral relations would meet in both russian and american interests. moving on iran has become the latest country to approve russia's sputnik vicodin vaccine and hopes to play a part in manufacturing the medicine too in an exclusive interview with r.t. the iranian foreign minister explains why is the nation has chosen the russian vaccine over the western alternatives here's some of the interview which as in full hair on thursday i think it was a public health problem with some political considerations about the intentions of the united states and the lack of trust which is which is very clear we have a very bad experience with another western country that i do not want to name they send to iran. blood.

whiteness. and so a lot of people needing blood transfusion still need to investigate it. but that was certainly a major public health problem in europe we will get. russian the russian ric's vaccine we will get the chinese reichstein we or in close touch with all of them be real good indian of a vaccine but our own iranian produced vaccine burned through the 1st cycle of human. clinical testing and we hope by june we will be able to use our own direction well separately the mexican president has described the job as evidence of scientific progress adding that his country hopes to get millions of doses within weeks. we spoke with the president of the russian federation vladimir putin and he was genuinely affectionate i invited him to visit mexico and thank him for the decision to send us 24000000 doses of the sputnik

vaccine over the next 2 months. meanwhile in india the final stage of sputnik the clinical trials are well underway and the country's ambassador to moscow says he's already taken the job himself i took it last week. the 1st also sputnik roxanne i feel perfectly ready many of my colleagues in the embassy have done so as well and. absolutely certain that this is part of the normal. precautions that we take in the pandemic situation just as we have made a mosque we have sort of distance but it is also good to pick scientifically proven scenes and of course the sport big vaccine is one such vaccine. approval of sputnik v in india could come within weeks once it completes the trials india is also considering making the job on its territory for both domestic and global demand the

country's envoy to russia told as why new delhi got involved it doesn't come as a surprise that we have a such a long tradition of cooperation between india and russia their cooperation continued during the cold pandemic so grand the idea. was to kill the material for approach the indian authorities or the testing of the sputnik alexina this was really come to an india these fears to close off for picnics you have been completed history commenced and be assured that us when our state regulatory approvals are given in india it will be available for use in india . aim is to finally. cover the vaccination of 300000000 indian so it is one of the largest vaccination programs in the world but at the same time we wish to reach out to your friends and neighbors and we have done so

be have given the nation doses. supplies have been sent by air to an apollo booked on bangladesh myanmar shows maldives and this is just the beginning we do not believe in vaccine competition we do not believe in vaccine nationalism we believe in rexy and cooperation and friendship and we intend to extend our hand of friendship rules. for the explanation program for number of countries. who are in need of them but who planned to go to the ritual that's been forward and i'm sure in the weeks ahead they would be cooperation between india and russia on the global vaccination programs and there would be clear potential for cooperation because the number of the vaccines that are produced in india would also be usable and they're really include that action sputnik rock

scene that would be produced a new deal. has been in touch with a number of very good indian companies to take this forward and we expect in the next couple of weeks sputnik wrecks enough there is a regulatory approval or will be available for use in india and also for export to russia and other countries. but never learns. nights of antilock down riots on monday is still fires lit police vehicles bund and windows smashed in process that some of you are up to the toughest coverts restrictions which include an overnight curfew.

more than 180 people were arrested in the latest on rest in amsterdam and rotterdam where shops were vandalized and looted local officials and the prime minister have condemned the violence it's criminal with some fearing the unrest which the country on the path to civil war. in the meantime a sponsor of a vaccine supplies is rumbling between the u.k. and the e.u. britain's vaccines the minister has hit out at brussels the decision to control exports calling it vaccine nationalism wrong it stems from european politicians accusing the british swedish drug company astra zeneca of diverting promise to evacuate in supplies to other countries here's our europe correspondent peter all of. governments across europe are struggling to bring down the number of cases of covert 19 and the number of fatalities from the fire that's the spy putting in place lock downs and restrictions on people like those that we've seen in the

netherlands that have resulted in on breasts there the latest issues that we're seeing a regarding the logistics of getting the vaccine where it needs to go there simply isn't enough being produced at the moment to put into people's arms at a spot is a ripping between the u.k. and the e u which is ended up with the u.k. vaccines minister accusing the european union of well vaccine diplomacy vaccine politics whatever you want to call it he's got a name for it vaccine nationalism is the wrong way to go we've got to make sure we protect our own people and then actually you know put our you know leaning as far as we can to protect the rest of the world to deal with the shortfalls in the number of vaccine doses available the european union has said that it wants pharmaceutical companies to inform brussels whenever vaccines manufactured inside the european union are to be exported outside of the block well that really could

end up resulting in delays to vaccines arriving in the united kingdom that's the concern in london despite 10 downing street playing down the idea of a vaccine war it's clear from what we just heard from the vaccine minister it is causing some concern now there's also concern over vaccines coming the other way earlier on we heard from astra zeneca the past oxford based part based pharmaceutical company saying that they were going to cook the number of vaccines expected to be delivered to the european union in the 1st quarter of 2021 by a whopping 60 percent that did not go down well in fact it resulted in. and the european commission president coming out and saying that well they needed to get the vaccines that they paid for she also made accusations that perhaps some of these vaccines may be going to the highest bidder as opposed to those that it

signed contracts like the e.u. to get them in the 1st place lash sums when vested to build research cap acid teas and production facilities early europe invested billions to help develop the world's 1st covered $1000.00 vaccines and now the companies must deliver they must honor their obligations and this is why we will set up a vaccine export transparency mechanism make no bones about it the european commission and ursula found alone personally are extreme scrutiny across the european union for the way that the vaccine program has been dealt with what we have is a situation whereby the vaccination program in the e.u. is being late silly slow if you compare it to countries like the united states and the united kingdom which is done particularly well it isn't looking too great the

way that vaccines are being rolled out across the block and there are a lot of people asking a lot of questions why that is the case it's unsure of course where the arguing between the e.u. and the u.k. is the way to solve that particular impasse. but despite an overall shortage of vaccines many doses of their finds a job in spain have been wasted because the country lacks the special syringes needed to extract all doses from their vial a medical expert brought down the problem in a bit more detail. they have already talked about the 6 and even 7 toes it's not possible with all the royals. you have to be prepared for that and use more expensive series just unusual it's a lot of money and records more cautions. so while 165000 doses of the fine shots have been given so far in the cancer lung region and estimated 10000 doses have been wasted and the shortages could have been much worse if it not been for

the fact that somebody didn't do the right needles the country is going through some of its toughest times and i 3rd wave of the pandemic their early infection rates hit a new high last week so little paper again sees the shortage of vaccines has amplified the problem. the main problem is that the number of vaccine supplied under the agreements and procurement of the european commission is still very small and i believe that until new vaccines are allowed their numbers will be significantly lower than we and the rest of the european union leaders know the european mount since agency is changing the technical detail induces per hour as soon as the labels changed they're going to give us 20 percent less dozers then we should have because any mistake means a loss of i think what this really means is a 20 percent increase in price. let's return to our breaking news now that i'm a putin joe biden have held that 1st phone conversation since the new u.s.

president's inauguration and they covered a number of topics to head to tell us more is always he's more pain at life in new york what came up in this 1st top level conversation. indeed well it was biden who initiated the conversation and called russian leader vladimir putin he called him on the phone and the conversation seems to focus primarily on the start treaty now the start treaty was one of the key agreements that was signed as the cold war was coming to its conclusion and it limits the number of nuclear weapons and nuclear delivery systems that both the united states and russia can maintain it is essentially a treaty that prevents a new arms race and it's not the only one however under the trumpet ministration the i.n.f. short range nuclear treaty was allowed to expire the clear skies nuclear treaty was allowed to expire and the treaty that putin and biden discussed that the start

treaty was set to expire on february 5th and it is the last of these nuclear treaties that was signed at the conclusion of the cold war but from what we understand biden and putin did agree that they would extend the the treaty the start treaty will be extended on february 5th it will not be allowed to expire so this is a big development it appears this important nuclear treaty will will be renewed and there will not be a new arms race this is certainly something that many are going to be happy about both in the united states and in russia now we also understand that there was some talk from biden about you know holding russia accountable for what he considers to be malign activities and that biden did make reference to the russian oppositional figure alexina valving so that is the phone call that took place this is the 1st

1st phone call between the russian leader and the new u.s. president joe biden it was initiated by biden and it seems that out of it we have a good development which is the agreement that a that a important nuclear. agreement that would you know that would limit and prevent an arms race and that agreement that agreement will be renewed on february 5th it will not be allowed to expire so i feel like a fairly positive start there was artie's keller walk in with the details thank you very much. the e.u. and the u.s. have been eagerly backing protests in support of jailed kremlin critic alexina valley in russia however at the same time they've been criticizing the far bigger rallies taking place in their own backyard so is it a case of one rule for another for you r.t. is more of garcia looks into it. the united states has come out in the strongest terms against the suppression of protests and against put he spoke let me try again

the united states says it can deadens police brutality it other countries the united states strongly condemns the use of harsh tactics against protesters and journalists this weekend in cities throughout russia prior to today's events the russian government sought to suppress the rights to peaceful assembly and freedom of expression i've got ahead and put together a least a list of people in that disease that have the right to lecture others on police brutality so there's luas for example they knew this stuff right what's legal and what isn't there is the pope i'm not catholic but i haven't seen vatican security roughing anyone up recently than that as yada yada oh oh there's no america in this least the very good reason there won't be defining there won't be a dismantling of our police and they're not going to be any dispensing of our

police our police have been letting us live in peace we can't give up the finest law enforcement anywhere in the world is nothing like it. few people few countries have a record and trouble is right few countries have a police force that unhinged i didn't see anyone getting shot in moscow nor tia gas nor sprayed with water cannons but that was trump let's see what biden thinks about opposition protests what we witnessed yesterday was not dissent it was not disorder it was not protest it was chaos. there were protesters don't dare call them protesters very were a riotous mob insurrection. domestic terrorist. stat basic it's. that said look nobody is ever again buying your lectures about police

brutality the world has seen by in the mosques not that it stops some from dr. to find this authoritarian drift is very worrying so there is france right in the 1st 3 months of the year to vest protests french police arrested 10000 protesters people died people will crippled last eyes lost lives here gas and rubber bullets were used in france in industrial quantities and you know what macro and is proud of the police do not speak of repression or police violence these words are unacceptable where there is rule of law then is germany demanding the release of all peaceful protesters detained in russia detained for peacefully attacking police peacefully punching traffic cops and peacefully destroying cars maiming drivers and marshaling kids 1011 year olds to attend violent protests

germany itself has been rattled with anti lockdown protests and you know what the german officials and police did they dismiss them as loons crazies extremists and beat them around the head for good measure the democratic institution in states is alive in the police or is protective shield a thing called the emergency services for this important service to a country that was a ton not long ago when the world looked up to europe and america is as beacons of freedom and liberty the right way to do things but that beacon that light has gone out there are no illusions anymore about europe or america being superior or better than everyone else the time for hypocritical lectures has pos no one can be bothered to listen anymore. the hate speach. access for another social media presence this time facebook taken down a group called patriots against joe biden it was allied to the conservative news

site the scoop whose founders have also had their personal profiles permanently banned here's how facebook explained his decision to purge patriots against has been removed for violating the terms of use pages that are hateful threatening or obscene or not allowed we also take down pages that attack an individual group or the search of an authorized individual the big tech purge ramped up again earlier this month when donald trump and some of his closest allies found themselves silenced by twitter facebook and other platforms many conservatives flocked instead to twitter rival parlor tooth foul of the internet gatekeepers the op was dropped by apple and google and then amazon pulled the plug on hosting the website facebook the band the page of a group for disillusioned democrat voters or relative new kid on the block telegram is under fire now to an internet safety campaign group's making legal moves to get

apple and google to drop the messenger app saying it's failing to filter out extremist activity the man behind the scoop website told as social media bans will only see people move elsewhere to share their opinions. we made the patriots against joe biden group after the capitol riots several days after and we had a strict clause in the about section of the group this group is about peace we reject all violence they still say it was extreme they shut down the group and they banned me from facebook permanently the scoop we're small organization we're doing well but we're not big funded media and we need to depend on these social media companies to make money we've barely ever gotten any strikes on our pages and this is pretty much our 1st warning and we were taken down i think it's just because the social media companies want to defend joe biden they're so terrified about what happened happened in the capital and they're using that as cover to just purge all conservatives on social media is there a clear distinction between energize free political speech and the aggressive

dangerous tribalism which any civilized society would expect it to be neutered online you know the problem is very difficult i understand that before social media when we would have discourse it would be in person with the shelter of the internet it obviously allows for people to have cover and be a lot more extreme in what they say i don't know what the solution is but banning people from social media because you think they're too extreme is not the answer people are moving to platforms like telegram to parlor if you ban people for their speech and they don't think they didn't think it wrong there to keep on moving to other platforms. leaders in scotland on laying the groundwork for another referendum on independence from the u.k. hoping to build not only on drugs that frustrations but also numerous such would say which they as many young scots as though to really don't feel all that british and saudi at woodstock he explains. the union jack could soon be losing its white lines of said andrew so tired as nicolas sturgeon revives the famous battle cry

from north of the border. the good news for pro independence scots is that the us minister said onto a new referendum the bad westminster has the final say and has always told them this should be only once in a generation we already had a referendum 6 years ago and it was quite decisive i can certainly rule out any such referendum. but with the s.n.p. expecting a round side win in may let's make this 7 says hold on a wee minute and the ground is the same defense downing street isn't back to talking brussels democracy is frightened of democracy if the same people win the scottish way action any. on a proposition of giving the people that choice or democrat. and in the we have found. public opinions finally swinging in sturgeon's favor almost half

think an independent scotland when i've done better in the pandemic than london watch response and an outright majority now think decisions should be made in edinburgh i would say as a young person in my focus has really been on money travelling. opportunity might take me with very very i think the biggest impact for me is just going to be travelling and really not feeling like i am and i feel like that's just been ripped away which if you think you know she. is giving the wheel arch. very little in return. for a lot more complicated. appears to have delivered it to ever say to go to british identity fracturing it across the aisles and time is on independent side the majority already consider themselves well scottish than british and the younger you are the more passionate they feel about. all this is boris johnson

in panic mode so he's heading there on a charm offensive to save the kingdom but considering how he was booed on a previous trip maybe he should stay well away. but it's not the only home nation voter might want to think twice about stepping in in northern ireland most now want a referendum about its border even usually friendly wales support for independence has jumped from the teens to almost a quarter this month final divorce from the e.u. already left warnings that britain's global voice would diminish but even britain itself now looks more and more like a disunited kingdom. school and the situation is entirely precedented. in succession suggesting a majority. one independent we know how over 2020 just acceptable

and you. threw 2020 in the beginning of 2021 suggesting clearly that scotland once to leave people in scotland when. we were altered promised all things like an improvement in shipbuilding contraction of truman and democracy are proven and none of that was developed it was all. a lie and that is why people are afraid or they want to know the river in their will and they want to leave. and she would stand to prove it again i said mission my thanks for joining us here on r.t. international where back at the top of the hour.

same wrong. just don't. let me. get to shape out just. get educated and engagement equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground.

will those who would be most impacted by having unrealized gains tax the so-called wealth tax would they not be incentivized to do agre style collapse and profit from the credit default swaps but on america and we always said that once they were successful in destroying greece they would move on to other countries in europe and it would eventually get to the u.s. is that day now approach. to what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race is often very dramatic to follow only.

exists i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. reading. rooms microphone glasses spenders legend these are just a few of the adjectives and descriptors used to describe the life and career of media icon larry king since his quiet passing at the age of 87 last saturday morning in los angeles california known for its signature look the large glasses and suspenders coupled with an interview style that was simultaneously laid back and cozy while powerful.