from from. from. from from. in a line says 27th of january the u.s. and russian president's talk everything from arms reduction to the pandemic in their 1st call since joe biden came to power. a source of talk about the smalling britain accuses brussels of vaccine nationalism is the e.u. looks to crack down on job exports. when a covert jobs proves our plants are manufactured to russia's covert vaccine in exclusive interview the country's foreign minister tells us why surrounds baccy sputnik the. russian the russian rigs vaccine we have a very bad experience with another person country that i do not want to name. the

french court it was a hearing against companies like monsanto and chemical who made already sold agent orange highly toxic substance heavily used back in the vietnam war coming up this hour we hear from the victim who brought the cakes. nation make it bad imagine how it must be to lose your 1st child as a young mother this child was journey in advance can you imagine the suffering it was only many many years later that i learned the culprit who just may challenge this not me but this place in. the world for moscow for a good morning for me kevin 0 in this is art international here for the next half hour with the headlines for you as you heard in more detail the start of this good bit of news we think president putin and biden have held their 1st phone call since the u.s. leaders inauguration the talks came just after moscow and washington agreed to

extend the new strategic arms reduction treaty known as new start it's been controversial this constantine is across it correspondent constant hello there. so what was what came out of this has been a lot brewing over this we know donald trump didn't want to extend it looks like everything's changed depending what you read what have you read this morning about it what we know sure good morning kavin well you know given the rocky relationship between the 2 nations the fact that the 2 presidents have talked and they grade on a major race control agreement in their 1st ever phone call well that's you know reassuring and the extension of the 5 year extension of the need to start treaty is indeed a bride spot and otherwise pretty much failing talks on arms control and non nuclear nonproliferation the new. the new strategic arms reduction treaty signed in 2010 is the only thing remaining thing right now that is limiting the 2 world's

largest nuclear arsenals and it's also provides for a regular launching site inspections of other side's arsenal so it is considered as an insurance policy against a full scale arms race russia was 1st to offer the extension of the treaty with preconditions in early 2020 but the trumpet ministration showed a lack of support supposedly because they were seeking a new deal instead they will cover more weapons. so the current treaty was due to expire on february 5th which is a little bit over a week from now and apparently this was a last ditch attempt to save the. well it succeeded so that's have a listen to how the kremlin welcomed the news. the president's expressed satisfaction on reaching an agreement on the extension of the strategic arms reduction treaty in the coming days all the necessary procedures will be completed

to ensure the further functioning of this important international legal mechanism for the mutual limitation of nuclear missile arsenals so the world can saw a better release guess what's the western reaction to this phone call that will get to that but 1st of all that the readout on the kremlin's official web pages about the phone call describe the conversation as a businesslike and frank and overall emphasis was on mutual cooperation and normalize in the relationship between the 2 countries and for example it is sad that the 2 leaders have discussed the possibility of joining forces in badly the pandemic but if you look at the way. this is a phone call was described there you will see different angle and tell us so last have a listen. president biden made clear that the united states will act firmly in defense of its national interests in response to actions by russia that harm us or our allies the 2 presidents agreed to maintain transparent and consistent communication

going forward. so it seems like for biden's administration. that american president has confronted his russian counterpart on various issues and not just agree to extend the treaty almost be a stopping the arms race from ask laden is not good enough and. well american major made an american news outlets they immediately latched on to this and they saw a dramatic change of tone sort of look how donald trump spoke to putin and how joe biden just did but it's worth mentioning that we didn't hear the actual conversation all we have are the readouts you know that a lot of diplomatic language to wit and when joe biden was asked directly how the phone call went well he preferred to. talk about the i don't. know so as

a recap it is important that there is a glimpse of hope that russia and the united states won't fall into the full scale arms race again but there is a certain reachable that the american president has to follow in order to sell this at how good stuff comes to think you have a small well. they made of this conversation between the 2 presidents. very much the message as you can see from the u.s. and white house report of that phone call the emphasis was we're going to hold you know we're going to russia is not going to mess with us russia is going to be held accountable for all the evil deeds that they do. that's a message for the domestic population which honestly. you know he's feeding his he's feeding meat to his dogs. and that is not a sign of a sophisticated foreign policy certainly the phone call this early in the stage of

the game is a good sign you know biden can kivett around completely and suddenly say you know he wants to. develop friendlier relations with russia so he's going to be talking to best a cli. as though he's a tough guy with russia but i think realistically the goals that biden has domestically are going to require of winding down of a. military. confrontational attitude towards russia and china in the end. germany's formally demanded that the you stop all exports of covert vaccines that it manufactures and britain's no accusing the block of vaccine nationalism that is brussels clamps down all supplies to our europe correspondent peter all of us got more. governments across europe are struggling to bring down the number of cases of covert 19 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 and a spot is a rope thing between the u.k. and the b 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 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 and that did not go down well in europe invested billions to help develop the world's 1st covered 1000 vaccines and now the companies must deliver. they must honor their obligations make no bones about it the european commission and ursula fund the lion personally are under 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 laid 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 while another news broke code prevention rand is the latest country to approve rush's covert vaccine and no hopes to manufacture sputnik v. as well but in exclusive interview iran's foreign minister told r.t. why they chose it over western alternatives here's a quick look at it now the full thing is on a head tomorrow. i think it was a public health problem with some political can 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 sent to iran. blood that had. whiteness. and so a lot of people needing blood transfusion to be still need to investigate it. but

that was certainly a major public health problem in europe. the united states did not reduce its pressure. on iran. it did not allow us to make financial transactions they said it humanitarian purchases were exempt from their sanctions but financial transactions to do those humanitarian because you don't you can't do humanitarian purchases without paying money and the banks who are supposed to transfer that money should restrict it actually has already given us the advantage because. if we had we wanted to wait for the medicine even for the test kits for covert 19 we wouldn't be able to get is from abroad we produced all of it in iran even even masks reproduced it in iran so sanctions have actually helped us stand on our own feet and be able to not i mean we want cooperation with the wood but we do not want to be dependent on it. we will get. russian the russian ric's vaccine

we will get the chinese vaccine we are in close touch with all of them be we'll get the indian of a vaccine but our own iranian produced vaccines went through the 1st cycle of human. clinical testing and we hope by june we will. be able to use our own. french court hearing into companies that manufactured or sold agent orange an extremely toxic chemical that cause massive health problems such as cancer back in the vietnam war he spoke to the victim who brought the case imagine a get back to imagine how you must be to lose your 1st child as a young mother is out there this child was journey in advance if you imagine the suffering it was only many many years later that i learned in a culprit who kills my child was not only that this plays into the will go to the

end together this is just the beginning we went through in 1000 pretrial sessions to get to disappearing everything was postponed. the lawsuit started getting filed 7 years ago an accusing firms of causing severe harm to the victim and her children by making and selling the chemical to the us for all would use in vietnam monsanto and chemical are among the multinational corporations accused while the plaintiff accuses the companies of more detail of not just causing health problems to a family but also of damaging the environment non-governmental organizations say millions of people still suffering from the effects of using agent orange in that war or you may find the following pictures coming up disturbing.

in response the accused firms defense is that they said they couldn't be held responsible for how the pentagon used the chemical in the conflict we got reaction from french activists on the trial. and what it translates to case create real hope because the 1st president will be created a lawyer valerie cabanas also talked about it it will show that for actions that result in a friend to human life and damage the environment you will be held responsible see that's easy they have spawned this process for the 6th time what are they waiting for they're waiting for tran to be dad that the process will be complete it is.

too young to vote for the old enough to spy for the government this concern in britain over plans to allow children to be used as covert spies and in some cases break the law to reveal wrongdoing by their parents the government's covert intelligence bill is making its way through parliament but even the prime minister's own conservative party and pays aware e. everyone i've spoken to has been horrified by it when it's been explained to them it needs to be extremely tightly controlled and those controls need to be greater the more the government's proposing once you start taking action like this to put spies in people's homes whatever the purpose this does have complications it is very important for government to recognise that this is not something that should be easily done in a democratic state if passed the bill that would allow 16 and 17 year olds to be recruited by $22.00 state agencies ranging from the police the military intelligence services to tax authorities the draft says that using youngsters would

be rare and include safeguards and supervision to protect the children we put the whole thing up for discussion. the use of a child informant is a last resort sort of step where you've got serious criminality and know all the why available of breaking into it and we have to be realistic that there are some situations where lots of children are exploiting it or are harmed and then maybe an opportunity to break that ring of this only going to be able to be crystallised by the use of a child informant children if we see them being exploited or the government comes through joining me exploited or involved in any sort of dangerous activity going to that nice remove them from that situation as soon as possible we shouldn't keep them there just so that they can't buy it even gahan looks at the situation of the child informant and ignored the situation of all the children who may be being

exploited or harmed by a ring of criminals who the child informant represents the only way into it and essentially we sacrificing this child just so we can save others this is one child who's come to the attention of the authorities we know he's at risk i don't but now we keeping him there or encouraging him to stay there just so we can save other children no one's been sacrificed no one is going to be placed in a position where they will come to any harm now of course their judgement calls and things sometimes go wrong but there is no intention of sending anybody child or adult into a situation where they will come to harm just to get information if they are deployed it will be can't be because the assessment is that it can be done safely where in kind sure teachers after we're done students don't as patients we have to want to know when neighbors immigration status criminality you know who went to

benefit fraud all of these things you know what i generally attention should be the government's duty has been put on the public anyway so i think that. strong on that has gone too far. so it's international force the clocks 18 minutes past the. 2 off the break this is the story you were one of the stories we're covering younger voters it seems are leading scotland's push for independence from britain. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to us of the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you then. is your media a reflection of reality. in

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criticized as insensitive to modern audiences getting a teeth into that necessitate a look at how far the rush to not offend anyone could. i was today years old when disney took a sledgehammer to my childhood memories having multi-day over for a few decades the family friendly entertainment giant has finally decided that peta pounds appropriating cultures like that going out of fashion dumbass friends are all racist and so were the aristocrats oh and if you want any of these films before your 7 years old you will be too can we collectively see you disney for teaching us the wrong values when we were kids i mean without dumbo maybe today he could have been a much better person the disney plus streaming platform is restricting access to be on the sevens to a number of films it says depict harmful stereotypes because if you thought dumb but was an ode to the town or love you clearly missed the bugs mocking segregation in the south. or.

what. peter pan playing dress up should have sent the alarm think about was ringing . on sean guns unbelievable accuracy when playing the piano in the aristocats was a bit well racially insensitive. a point but if we're being sensible little one see a flying out of foot a singing cap and everything else is pretty much a blur also maybe education and not elimination is the way for would bunk in october disney was praised when it decided to put disclaimers before some of its more problematic films why rather than remove this content we want to acknowledge its harmful impact learn from it and spark conversation to create

a more inclusive future together while no more learning from history and disney apparently new policy segregation didn't exist if you don't. watch dumbo and donald trump wasn't president if you edited out his cameo in home alone 2 it's all about the kids see one someone just think of the children like this disney producer. kids go screaming it's 1st into the wood chipper so childhood classics getting the full on can't slow culture treatment snow white not to mention the 7 dwarfs are probably that worried actually on 2nd thought that was a safe no one's going to rest discriminate against that. we hope. he does is go and lay the groundwork for a referendum on independence from the u.k. hoping to build not only on bricks in frustrations but also new research which says that many younger scottish voters really don't feel at all british these days the

show did which dusty explains. the union job could soon be losing its white lines of san andreas so tired as nicholas stern to revive the famous battle cry from north of the border. the good news for her independence star is the 1st minister said i want to win the referent of the cards 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 5 win in may let's make this settle says hold on a wee minute and the ground is the same defense downing street isn't brett's a talking brussels democracy he's frightened of democracy is that when the scottish relation in a few months try him on a proposition of giving the people that choice or democrat. and in the we have that

. public opinion is finally swinging in sturgeon's favor almost half think an independent scotland when i've done that or in a pandemic that long didn't wash response and then out right majority now think decisions should be made in edinburgh. as a young person in my focus is mainly been on money travelling. very very big you actually see the u.k. has given the wheel arch and got very little in return it's just a lot more complicated. appears to have delivered it ever say to go to british identity fracturing it across the aisles and time is on independent side a 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 whale support for independence has jumped from the teens to almost a quarter of this month's 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 if you want independence you know how over 2020.

through. 2021. still clearly. wants to lead the lynch gold will not. rule she crossed off things like improvement in shipbuilding contraction truman in democracy and proven him oh no it was all of it was all a perspective of a lie and i enjoy a blizzard or they want to know what written in the will and they want to leave the euro and she sure would stand again as a nation we're talking of relations between countries fishing it remains one of the biggest bones of contention between brussels and britain post breck said another norway is refusing to let the u.k. and even boats into its part of the north sea just another complication to the whole picture then a fisherman telling us how much money he's losing because of this new arrangement we need x. x. access to the norwegian waters to class surface because 70 percent of our cats is

from a region waters. 30 percent 25 percent of the cats are from u.k. waters and only 5 percent of our cases from these waters i think iraq lost about between 20 and 25 percent of our of our fists of our quarter of our to catch him in not only the u.k. was ross a norwegian was always very serious but these type of wrestles norway is not in the e.u. and had previously negotiated fishing rights annually with the block but in december all slow warned it could end access to its waters over bricks and related delays in the talks the danish fish when we spoke to again says britain's exit from the union is not help here. now there is a break to deal but. we still do not have access to them and we can watch because of some issues to be solved and one of them you. know we just have to make a deal with the with the u.k. and with the e.u.

and before they only had to make a deal with the so that's one of the biggies you will continue to follow that story and you can follow anything we're talking about today on any of us social media or r.t. dot com let's now either think about the stories as well go to the comment section it was have you'll say that but that's the way things look at so far from me kevin 0 in on that same great that you've watched this program was appreciated and whatever you're doing this wednesday have a great day were. right now all the. people who are overweight or obese it's profitable to self. and sugary and salty and addict and it's not at the individual

level it's not individual willpower and if we go on believing that would never change this obesity epidemic that industry has been influencing very deeply the medical and scientific establishment in the us and what's driving the obesity epidemic it's. the world is driven by shaped past and present those. who dares thinks. we dare to ask.

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